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“The real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain if you don't open your heart beyond the satisfaction of your personal emotional needs.”

Ifs Needs Heart Real Pain Pleasure Practice Emotional Satisfaction Dissatisfaction Open Your Heart Wallowing Emotional Needs

Author:David Deida

“The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.”

Country Century Praise Idiot Tone Enthusiastic Dissatisfaction

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.”

Want Different Three Rich Sick Satisfied Traveler Want Something Dissatisfaction Anywhere But Here

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.”

Art Done Wanted Artist Courses Talking Eternal Compare Dissatisfaction Deathbed

Author:John Huston

“As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient conditioning rather than present circumstances is causing our dissatisfaction , and that this moment is quite sufficient or even wonderful, and we simply hadn't noticed.”

May Moments Sound Meditation Wonderful Strange Circumstances Ancient Sufficient Conditioning Dissatisfaction

Author:Wes Nisker

“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

Artist Alive Divine Strange Blessed Dance Satisfaction Vitality Dissatisfaction Unrest Choreographers Quickening

Author:Martha Graham

“Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.”

Miracle Accomplished Unhappiness Dissatisfaction Miracle Of Life

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.”

States Reality Greater Enlightenment Pursuit Bliss Yearning Dissatisfaction Authentic Life

Author:Adyashanti

“Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.”

Lying Dissatisfaction Living A Lie

Book:Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex

Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex

“All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.”

Thinking Doe Results Fats Dissatisfaction Overeating

Author:Alton Brown

“The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.”

Feels Littles Form Artist Dissatisfaction Completion Germs New Work

Book:On the heights: a novel

Source: On the heights: a novel

“A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.”

“Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who have more, we feel bad. When we compare ourselves to those who have less, we feel grateful. Even though the truth is we have exactly the same life either way, our feelings about our life can vary tremendously based on who we compare ourselves with. Compare yourself with those examples that are meaningful but that make you feel comfortable with who you are and what you have.”

Way Feels Feelings Our Lives Example Truth Is Comfortable Roots Grateful Who You Are Satisfaction Meaningful Compare Comparison Vary Dissatisfaction

Book:The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

Source: The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

“The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.”

Solutions Evidence Immortality Dissatisfaction Blazing

Book:The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861

Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861

“The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.”

Feelings Building Stones Satisfaction Poison Chemistry Perfume Dissatisfaction Explosives Opiates Stimulants

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.”

“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one”

Should Self Impossible Claims Rose Saint Cures Temples Princess Scholar Bowls Medieval Dissatisfaction Eleanor

Author:Joan Didion

“The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.”

Want Kind Life Is Worry Satisfaction All Kinds Lasting Fleeting Dissatisfaction Unfulfilled Desires

Author:Meher Baba

“Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.”

Ifs Needs Spiritual Too Much Cost Stones Silent Oppression Protest Throwing Bullets Oppressed Persistent Terrific Dissatisfaction Oppressors

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.”

Men Writing States Form Literature Constant Missions Permanent Alarms Dissatisfaction Insurrection

Book:Making Waves: Essays

Source: Making Waves: Essays

“No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.”

Song Inspire Dissatisfaction Restlessness

Author:Andrew Bird

“I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.”

Long Facts Light Accepting Long Ago Dissatisfaction

Book:My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century

Source: My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century

“What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.”

Different Dissatisfaction

Author:Jay Electronica

“In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.”

Mind Self Science Anxiety Research Scientist Satisfaction Collectives Agony Dissatisfaction Restlessness Enquiry Self-satisfaction Personal Satisfaction

Author:Jacques Monod

“In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.”

World Today Emotion Ordinary Productive Covered Dissatisfaction Live For Today Ordinary Life Minutiae Covered Up

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“Pause and remember - No one is coming to rescue you from yourself; your inner demons, your lack of confidence, your dissatisfaction with yourself and life. Only self-love and good decisions will rescue you.”

Self Remember Loss Decision Self Love Recovery Demon Rescue Pauses Dissatisfaction Good Decision Lack Of Confidence Inner Demons Yourself And Life

Author:Jennifer Young

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