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"No one is content with his own lot."
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"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another."

"When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings you will never be satisfied."

"Personal discontent and lost illusion is the catalysis and the principal theme for every book ever written. The sign of maturity is when a person finally realizes that they would rather live truthfully than persist indulging his or her comforting delusions."

"Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall--discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied."

"Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough."

"The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent."

"In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town."

"Humans are forever discontent-always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances."
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"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"

"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."

"He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say 'I have lived.' Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not however render ineffectual the things which have already taken place."
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