As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?
When the mid-'70s came around, it looked like, 'Oh-oh, here come the punks.' But if you look closely at The Who and The Kinks, the anger and the frustration is there... There is, within me, just the same social discontent as I go through my career. But to be typecast as a singer of peace and love is fine.
