dissatisfaction

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.''Why do you say that?''She seems different, that's all.''I don't know,' Bud said. 'You might be confusing different with dissatisfied.

...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.

The more I see of the __ounoured, famed, and great,_ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.

Love is not insatiable. What is insatiable is the need for love.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

We waste this life dreaming of another.

We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact.""And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.

You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

For with each bite he tasted not just the irresistible sweetness of the dessert, but the deliciously agonizing negative flavor of all the imagined foodstuffs that he could have bought with that nickel instead__ turkey leg the size of his forearm, or a milkshake with a pair of deep red strawberries floating on its surface. The single relinquished nickel sat in the custard seller's till, its gold transmuted back to lead.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Kissing a stranger because that is what is done presages an unhappy year not for any supernatural reason, but because you are unsatisfied enough with your lot in life to put your lips on the line for a fallacy.

There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay," Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it.

One person simply can__ be all things to another person _ sexually or otherwise__nd unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long __erm relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.

Focus on patience, loyalty, intelligence, greed, dissatisfaction and pride.