Discontentment Quotes

• A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

  David A. Bednar

  Grateful, Suffering, Contentment

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• Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Men, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Motivational, Thanksgiving, Kids

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• There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

  Laozi

  Money, Greed, Guilt

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• I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.

  David McCullough

  Dream, Brain, Sometimes

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• If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.

  Alistair Begg

  Selfish, Expectations, Contentment

  Alistair Begg (2004). “Pathway to Freedom: How God's Law Guides Our Lives”, p.215, Moody Publishers

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• Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Gone, Harmony, Stage

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.

  Shane Claiborne

  World, Stuff, Changing The World

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

  Sivananda

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

  Shane Claiborne

  Powerful, Use, Cynicism

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Giving, Tears

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 02, 2011

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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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• We can start by living by the Spirit while we stop following the heart of discontentment and doubt.

  Candace Cameron

  Heart, Doubt, Spirit

  Candace Cameron-Bure, Darlene Schacht (2011). “Reshaping It All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness”, p.68, B&H Publishing Group

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• A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.

  Anita Roddick

  Thinking, Essentials, Want

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• But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Prayer, Long

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• Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Mind, Looks, Literature

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• Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Acceptance, Doors

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• WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Weed, Real, Shadow

  Oliver Cromwell (1860). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the First Edition with Elucidations”, p.142

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• Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

  Joseph Hall

  Ambition, Men, Enemy

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.26

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