The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
Discontent Quotes
The discontented person thinks that everything that he does for God is too much and everything God does for him is too little.
“A cucumber is bitter.” Throw it away. “There are briars in the road.” Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, “And why were such things made in the world?
Discontent is the seed of ethics.
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
Does he paint? he fain would write a poem, Does he write? he fain would paint a picture.
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
Now the flowers in your garden, they don’t smell so sweet. Maybe you’ve forgotten the heaven lying at your feet.
