Category Archives: DISCONTENT

CONTENTMENT, DISCONTENT, gratitude, HAPPINESS, ISOLATION, JOY, thankfulness, WOUNDS

All our Discontents about what we want, appeared to me, to spring from the Want of Thankfulness for what we have. Robinson Crusoe  (1719)

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Daryl Hine “Among Islands”

We are exiles everywhere we go,
Stranded upon the verandah, castaways
In the family living room, like Crusoe,
Or like Philoctetes, festering,
Having given away the Herculean bow,
With nothing to call our own except the wound.

DISCONTENT, DISCOVERY, DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED, ENVY, INVENTORY, ISM, JEALOUSY, MORAL, STEP 4, WISDOM

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.” – H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

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“Inventory:

“Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I’d been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”

― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

ACTION, DISCONTENT, DREAMING, MYSTERY, OPEN MINDEDNESS, VISION

“Mystery keeps man alive; it opens his ears, his eyes, and his mind! Find a mystery and try to solve it!”

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 ― Mehmet Murat ildan

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CHARLES KINGSLEY.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!

Joel Arthur Barker

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CONFIDENCE COURAGE AND CAUTION, DISCONTENT, ISM, LIFE, STEP 4

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

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“Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade from her conception of it. As the days multiplied, her need of something, something vaguely familiar, but which she could not put a name to and hold for definite examination, became almost intolerable. She went through moments of overwhelming anguish. She felt shut in, trapped.”

― Nella Larsen, Quicksand

DISCONTENT, HEART, MATERIAL WORLD, MIND, PEOPLE,PLACES AND THINGS, POWER, SATISFACTION, SEEKING, THANK YOU, WANTING AND NEEDING

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

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― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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“No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.”

Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

AWARENESS, DISCONTENT, HOPE, LIFE, MEANING, RESTLESSNESS, VALUE, YEARNING

Life is a free circus. All you have to do is pay attention. Bill Copeland

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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