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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

Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he doesn't know who Coriolanus is. That since you moved in you've noticed he rarely reads. He will give you a hurt, hungry-to-learn look, with his James Cagney eyes. He will try to kiss you. Turn your head. Feel suffocated. (from "How")


Lorrie Moore


#discontent #relationships #home

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.


Criss Jami


#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.


Elena Ferrante


#life #life

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.


Aesop


#be happy #discontented #happy #place #seldom

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

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.


Thomas A. Edison


#first #necessity #progress

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.


Mason Cooley


#believe #discontented #past #regrets #their

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.


Rachel Field


#been #confused #discontent #easily #had

In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all is quiet. In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.


Alan Paton


#silence #strike #life






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