“As long as our actions are based upon an inner discontent they will in the long term reinforce the very feelings of discontent we are trying to avoid.”

“Happiness is the exception-joy a rarity-the normal feeling most human beings have is discontent or longing... maybe there's an evolutionary purpose.”

“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.”

“I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.”

“God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...”

“There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.”