Divine Discontent Quotes

#1. For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Charles Kingsley

#2. And do you call yours a divine discontent?'
'Yes. I don't care about its divinity. But damn your happiness! So long as life's full, it doesn't matter whether it's happy or not. I'm afraid your happiness would bore me.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

Kabir

#4. 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

#5. It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?

Henrietta C. Mears

#6. Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.

Deepak Chopra

#7. A great artist ... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.

Mary Fairfax

#9. Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#10. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Kenneth Grahame

#11. Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself ... It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

Harper Lee

#12. It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become.

Neal A. Maxwell

#13. Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Cyril Cusack

#14. I'm supposed to spread my fingers as wide as they were with the rubber band, mash my palms hard into the floor, and pull myself down. When I do, I surprise even myself when my elbows straighten with barely any effort.

Christopher McDougall

#15. I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

Rick Perlstein

#16. The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view.

Steve Goodier

#17. Al Gore invented the Internet.

Joe Biden

#18. She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

Ann Brashares

#19. I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.

George Strait

#20. The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

Friedrich Nietzsche