#discontent

I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a yearning for values we can commonly embrace. I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses. ↗

— Bill Moyes

#hope #materialism #life

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment. ↗

— George R. Gissing

#coin #contentment #discontent #life #money

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

#discontent #enough #importance #justice #necessity

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#believe #discontented #past #regrets #their

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#better person #closer #discontent #divine #draw

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

— Florence Nightingale

#better #discontented #never #none #reach

And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little happy himself. He began to wonder whether he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with his life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious. ↗

— François Lelord

#unhappiness #life

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#chaos #discontent #god #made #man

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#more #never #others #ourselves #than

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#discontent #greater #men #nation #rebellion