“Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.” WritingFirstsFactsCertainStuffSatisfiedFinite Author:Rose Tremain
“Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.” IfsKnowsSometimesMomentsFactsWould BeMovingUsedTurnsFoundWorryDespairDown AndSurfaceSatisfiedWorriedSettlingStreamsDivisionNew BeginningsRenewalClicheDissatisfactionDissatisfiedSettling DownUndertaker Book:Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.” WorldLooksSelfFactsPoliticalProcessReligiousBehindsFoundationDisasterSatisfiedRealisingArrogantCreedsUneasyDissolution Author:John Buchan
“It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.” StatesFactsUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesDoubtIntentionSpreadContrarySatisfiedDoctrine Author:George Washington