Discontentment Quotes

People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.

Sadhguru

Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

Michael Bassey Johnson

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

Humans are forever discontent—always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Life has a tendency to provide a person with what they need in order to grow. Our beliefs, what we value in life, provide the roadmap for the type of life that we experience. A period of personal unhappiness reveals that our values are misplaced and we are on the wrong path. Unless a person changes their values and ideas, they will continue to experience discontentment.

Kilroy J. Oldster

You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.

Idowu Koyenikan

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.

Carson McCullers

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

Haruki Murakami