#content

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

#discontent #divine #essence #feel #longer

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it? ↗

— Bob Geldof

#divorces #going #great #heart #initiated

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#because #cannot #contented #happy #we cannot

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ↗

— Doug Larson

#full #happiness #looking #people #spectacular

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#angola #beds #been #contents #deciding

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#become #bestow #content #earnest #fleeting

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate. ↗

— Louis XIV

#discontented #every #every time #hundred #i

Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate. ↗

— Louis XIV

#create #every #every time #hundred #i

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#correlate #human #human mind #inability #merciful

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. ↗