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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Eckhart Tolle
Future
Good
You
Matter
Complaining
Blaming
Make
How
Discontent
Self-Pity
How Much
Effort
Cannot
Much
Foundation
Serve
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama
You
Yourself
Practice
Contentment
Satisfied
Everything
Say
More
Never
Always
Discontent
Yes
Oh
Want
Really
Your
Desire
Need
Now is the winter of our discontent.
William Shakespeare
Winter
Our
Discontent
Now
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin
Men
Rich
Content
Makes
Discontent
Poor
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Milan Kundera
Jealousy
Pet
Evil
Paradise
Our
Know
Discontent
Dogs
Link
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
Ram Dass
You
Content
Discontent
Still
Moving
Your
Even
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
Me
Failure
You
Man
Progress
Will
First
Satisfied
Thoroughly
Restlessness
Discontent
Show
Necessity
The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.
Derek Walcott
Satisfied
Lies
Simply
Material
Material Things
Discontent
Condition
Human
Human Condition
Things
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
B. R. Ambedkar
Justice
Rights
Political
Revolution
Conviction
Enough
Thorough
Importance
Discontent
Social
Successful
Required
Profound
Necessity
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
John Steinbeck
Time
You
Enough
Hunger
Fed
New
Does
Discontent
Yearning
Been
Where
Loved
Fields
Warm
Prod
Your
Start
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
Progress
Healthy
Discontent
Prelude
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field
Confused
Ambition
Think
Easily
Only
Had
Sure
Discontent
Been
May
Used
Now
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.
Robert Kennedy
Communism
Political
Thrive
Poverty
Programs
Progressive
Out
Must
Misery
Wipe
Discontent
Ultimately
Which
Defeated
The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.
Arundhati Roy
You
Anger
People
Political
Feeling
Important
Gauge
Way
Extremely
Could
Share
Come
Know
Became
Occupy
Discontent
Were
Political Movement
Sites
Any
Movement
Where
Places
Who
Found
Levels
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
John Ortberg
Soul
Chronic
Liberated
Hurry
Unsatisfied
Attended
Understood
Discontent
Preoccupation
Desires
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
Saint Teresa of Avila
God
Heart
World
Thought
Longing
Solely
Finds
Gives
Remain
Wishes
Comfort
Discontent
Quit
Painful
Here
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
Albert J. Nock
Life
Failure
Parents
Saw
Indeed
Somehow
Seemed
Never
Over
Supposed
Trace
Cheerfulness
Discontent
Were
Lot
Quite
Lack
Anything
Poor
Might
Needed
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Woman
Increases
Exact
Proportion
Development
Discontent
Her
I always feel discontent, like there's somewhere else to go, somewhere else to be. I'm a very ambitious person.
Engelbert Humperdinck
Somewhere
Else
Somewhere Else
Feel
Like
Always
Discontent
Go
Ambitious
Very
Person
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
Fanny Kemble
Government
Time
Great
People
Dangerous
Witness
Distress
Spirit
Triumphant
Prevailed
Vast
Had
Discontent
Arrival
Orders
Successful
Lowest
Who
Mechanics
Whom
Travellers
Among
Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
Ferdinand Marcos
Matter
Revolution
Think
Economic
Naive
Discontent
Just
Social
Us
Let Us
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
Ways
Protest
Without
Discontent
Kremlin
Your
Many
Showing
Actions
The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.
George Saunders
You
Eyes
Mind
Become
Machine
Would
Constantly
Arises
Another
Does
Discontent
Close
Move
Refuse
Place
Prefer
Asking
Your
Satisfy
Watch
Desire
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.
Hugh Prather
Me
Assumption
Else
Would
Boredom
See
Something
Something Else
Rather
Clearly
Discontent
Doing
Acknowledge
Useful
I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.
Ismail Kadare
Work
Beautiful
Morning
Writing
On The Contrary
Something
Only
Write
Feel
Discontent
Still
Noon
Discovered
Hand
Contrary
Interrupt
A fuel of discontent and anxiety is probably pretty central to the fuel at 'Scandal!'
Jeff Perry
Anxiety
Scandal
Pretty
Discontent
Central
Fuel
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