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  • There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

    Money   Greed   Guilt  
  • I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.

    Dream   Brain   Sometimes  
  • A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

  • We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

  • Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

    Happiness   Men   Liberty  
    Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.4, Courier Corporation
  • WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

    Weed   Real   Shadow  
    Oliver Cromwell (1860). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the First Edition with Elucidations”, p.142
  • We can start by living by the Spirit while we stop following the heart of discontentment and doubt.

    Heart   Doubt   Spirit  
    Candace Cameron-Bure, Darlene Schacht (2011). “Reshaping It All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness”, p.68, B&H Publishing Group
  • Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

    Ambition   Men   Enemy  
    Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.26
  • Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.

    Mean   Acceptance   Doors  
  • The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

    I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
  • Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

    Gone   Harmony   Stage  
    Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net
  • I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

    Believe   Giving   Tears  
    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 02, 2011
  • Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  • Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.

    "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.
  • We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

    Powerful   Use   Cynicism  
    "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.
  • But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

    Marriage   Prayer   Long  
  • Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

    Mind   Looks   Literature  
  • There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

  • A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.

  • If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.

    Alistair Begg (2004). “Pathway to Freedom: How God's Law Guides Our Lives”, p.215, Moody Publishers
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