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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
In every team there are those who are discontented.
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as an earlier discontented Dane, he could be said to have laid the ground for Kierkegaard - but because the line 'to thine own self be true' was spoken by that humourless old ninny, Polonius.