“Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often, if not always, expect that a new discontent and restlessness will soon develop, unless the individual is doing what he is fitted for. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet”
Abraham Maslow
“To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.”
Charles Kingsley
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation”
Oscar Wilde
“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Discontent is the seed of ethics”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
