This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.
Discontent | Man | Progress | World |
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.
Art | Discontent | Discovery | Nothing | Work |
It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices.
Fear | Love | Man | Men | Revolution | Trust | Work | Worry |
Ten Success Rules: Put success before amusement. Learn something every day. Cut free from routine. Concentrate on net profits. Make your services known. Never worry over trifles. Shape your decisions quickly. Acquire skill and technique. Deserve loyalty and co-operation. Value character above all.
Character | Day | Loyalty | Loyalty | Skill | Success | Trifles | Worry | Learn | Value |
To secure one’s own happiness is a duty, at least indirectly; for discontent with one’s condition, under a pressure of many anxieties and amidst unsatisfied wants, might easily become a great temptation to transgression of duty.
Discontent | Duty | Temptation | Wants | Happiness | Temptation |
The root of all discontent is self-love.
Discontent | Love | Self | Self-love |
Josh Billings, pen name for Henry Wheeler Shaw, aka Uncle Esek
It is the little things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying unable to sit still.
Discontent | Earth | Future | Present | Worry |
I believe in work, hard work and long hours of work. Men do not break down from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
18/40/60 Rule When you're eighteen, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you. When you're forty, you don't give a damn about what anybody thinks of you. When you're sixty, you realize nobody's been thinking about you at all.
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Discontent | God | Man | Progress | God |
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Conversation | Wit | Worry |
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to bear what God would tell us on that very point.
Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL
Discontentment is human, contentment is divine. Animals know neither contentment nor discontentment; they simply go on living mechanically, unconsciously. It is the great privilege of human being to be aware of discontent. To be aware of discontent means there is a possibility to grow towards contentment. But very few people make any effort towards inner growth. Their whole life is rooted in a misunderstanding. They think that if they have a bigger house or more money or more power or more prestige they will be contented; that if they become famous, if their name is known all over the world, then they will be contented. That is sheer nonsense.
Contentment | Discontent | Effort | Life | Life | Means | Money | People | Power | Will | Privilege | Think |