Dissatisfactions Quotes

#1. The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.

Henepola Gunaratana

#2. The jeep would round the bend, be hit by a dozen bullets at once, and that would be the end of his petty history of unfocused groping and unimportant dissatisfactions.

Norman Mailer

#3. Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Virginia Postrel

#4. Is it the sea you hear in me?
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?
Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it.

Sylvia Plath

#5. Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

Alain De Botton

#6. You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.

Frederick Herzberg

#7. I've known plenty of couples who choose to ignore budding problems or dissatisfactions because it's easier in the moment. But too much of that for long enough, and you all of a sudden have a huge problem on your hands, or a midlife crisis, or a broken marriage.

Fawn Weaver

#8. So even these stages of progression, whether it's your career or whatever, you get somewhere, but then it always brings a new host of issues that are relative dissatisfactions to a certain degree. I think it was a great philosopher who once said, "Mo' money, mo' problems."

Steve Zissis

#9. We come into this world crying and calling, wailing and singing; and for the first months of our life all our needs and instincts, our dissatisfactions and discoveries are immediately vocalized without apology and without censor.

Paul Newham

#10. New day, new delight.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles ... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

James Brown

#12. Every kid wants to give their family a better life.

J. B. Bernstein

#13. Their willingness to help others is arguably the single most important trait that defines them as Newfoundlanders. Today, it is an identity they cling to, in part, because it is something that cannot be taken away from them.

Jim DeFede

#14. I could almost feel hope latching onto my heart and pulling it upward.

Suzanne Supplee

#15. I prefer winter and fall, when you can feel the bone structure in the landscape
the lonliness of it
the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it
the whole story dosen't show.

Andrew Wyeth

#16. I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

David LaChapelle

#17. I watch her so much that I forget it's raining at all.

J.A. Redmerski

#18. You can win the lottery, but not an argument.

Marty Rubin

#19. Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.

Roy T. Bennett