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• I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?

  Everett Ruess

  People, Acting, And Love

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

  Mitch Albom

  Live Life, Waiting, Want

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.118, Broadway Books

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• Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

  Stephen Covey

  Survival, Needs, Next

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Long, Noble

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Lying, Mind

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• We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do.

  Miranda July

  Animal, Rocks, Perfect

  "Miranda July" by Matthew Higgs, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

  Shannon Hale

  Crazy, Reading, Writing

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• I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

  David Antin

  Distinction

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• New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Hands, Progress

  Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it's all down to the Thatcher-and-after culture of turbo-capitalism, making people acquisitive and unsatisfied.

  Peter York

  Mother, Fashion, Baby

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• I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.

  Libba Bray

  Queens, Years, Done

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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• To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

  Aldous Huxley

  Excited, Stills

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Needs, Affection

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• All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow,
  All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,
  All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Heart, Grieving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.40

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• I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Desire, Bows, Wells

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People ask me almost every day, "Why? You are successful, you have kids, you have grandchildren, so why?" Feminist women are seen as unsatisfied. But all women in the world, if they are well aware of inequality, are unsatisfied women. They don't have the same rights as men, and there is no freedom until there is equality between men and women.

  Maria Teresa Horta

  Kids, Successful, Grandchildren

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Thinking, Curiosity

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• The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.471

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• [The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse, all action would immediately cease, and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an end to their miserable existence.

  David Hume

  Men, Principles, Action

  David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.162

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• Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by a never-ending quest for joy amidst the thrills of sensation and vice. Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Hate, Yield, Giving

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• The best way to hate is the worst.
  'Tis to find what the hated need,
  Never mind of what actual worth,
  And wipe that out of the earth.
  Let them die of unsatisfied greed.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Greed, Mind

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

  James Joyce

  Adventure, Insecure, Choices

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• During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Orange, Color, Feelings

  "Fall 2012 Hair Trends" by Tabatha Coffey, www.elle.com. September 11, 2012.

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• It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Angel, Garden, Wings

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mystery, Uncontrollable

  "The Magi" l. 1, 6 (1914)

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