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• The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Energy, Done

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• 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

  Successful, Government, Order

  Fanny Kemble (1879). “Records of a Girlhood”

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• The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Love, Men, Essence

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• Man hath a weary pilgrimage,
  As through the word he wends;
  On every stage, from youth to age,
  Still discontent attends.

  Robert Southey

  Men, Age, Youth

  Robert Southey (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.118

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• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Struggle, Healthy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

  John Steinbeck

  Space, Rockets, Cures

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.151, Penguin

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• Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

  Anna Freud

  Faults

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• We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

  Lewis Thomas

  Life, Death, Fear

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Summer, Autumn, Equality

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, People, Lovely

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.77, Penguin

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• Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Simple, Envy, May

  "Doing Well and Doing Good: The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist". Book by Richard John Neuhaus, 1992.

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• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

  Florence Nightingale

  Happiness, Inspirational Life, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.13, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Dark, Grieving

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.247, Penguin

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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Memorable, Animal

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 4, l. 7

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• You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  "Intuitions" by Albert Camus, Youthful Writings, 1976.

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• God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-momen t dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians who have come to terms with their inadequacies, fears, and failures. Believers who have become discontent with 'surviving' and have taken the time to investigate everything God has to offer in this life.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Taken, Men

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• All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Future, Vision, Amendments

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• A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

  John Steinbeck

  Reading, Men, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.84, Penguin

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• Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

  Plato

  Luxury, Parent, Poverty

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.110, Anchor

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• Now is the winter of our discontent.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Merchant Of Venice

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Growing, Christ

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 58: Sermons 3283 to 3334”, p.636, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

  Robert Herrick

  Punishment, Littles, Endure

  Robert Herrick, Tom Cain, Ruth Connolly (2013). “The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick”, p.202, Oxford University Press

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• Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Father, Progress

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