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#discontent

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The discontented man finds no easy chair.


Benjamin Franklin


#discontented #easy #finds #man

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.


Fanny Kemble


#arrival #artisans #assembled #dangerous #discontent

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.


Milan Kundera


#discontent #dogs #evil #jealousy #know

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.


Lewis Thomas


#animal #away #creatures #discontent #dying

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

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.


John L. Lewis


#citizenship #discontent #doctrines #good #government

Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us.


John MacArthur


#leadership #leadership

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

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.


Thomas A. Edison


#first #necessity #progress






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