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If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.

Gary Lutz

American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.

Will Rogers

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

Gertrude Atherton

How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?

Gregg Easterbrook

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody’s happy.

Aldous Huxley

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

Aesop

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

Daniel Pinchbeck

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others … are cheerful in a graveyard.

Arthur Lynch

Discontentment is a gift. It’s the stuff that changes the world.

Shane Claiborne

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

Anaïs Nin

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.

Anthony Trollope

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

June Jordan

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

John Steinbeck

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

John Vanbrugh

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Johann Georg Hamann

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

Mark Twain

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Marlene Dietrich

I’d spent so many years doing things I didn’t really want to do for people I didn’t really like.

Claire Cook

If you keep pretending you’re in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you’re in.

Cornelia Funke

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

Cyril Tourneur

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

Phyllis Bottome

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