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Many a worldling is satiated, but not one is satisfied. TD103:5
This is the miraculous mistake of man,—that he is always beginning to live; but he
never does live; he always intends to be satisfied, but he never is; he always means
to sit down in content, but that period never arrives. He always has something to
vex him, but still hopes the day shall come when he shall be vexed no more. 247.179
As to money, every man will have enough when he has a little more, but contentment
with his gains comes to no man. 1222.146
Discontentment is a bottomless bog into which if one world were cast it would quiver
and heave for another. 1222.147
When the vulture of dissatisfaction has once fixed its talons in the breast it will not
cease to tear at your vitals. 1222.147
I do believe that there are some Christians whom God himself will never satisfy until
he takes them to heaven. 2860.579
Possibly you are dissatisfied because you cannot bring the contents of your pocket up
to the height of your wishes; but if you bring your wishes down to the level of the
contents of your pocket, you will be satisfied with what you now have. 2987.238
We are all for pronouncing our neighbour’s lot happier than our own. As Young says
of mortality, “All men think all men mortal but themselves,” we are apt to think all
men happy but ourselves. 3054.409