A Quote by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
American - Politician
November 29, 1908 - April 4, 1972

There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.

Og Mandino

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

Susan Sontag

He said, Contented? I am the MOST discontented man in the world! Don't you know I am the wealthiest man in the world? That is my discontent. Now I know there is no more to wealth: all that is possible I have attained, and yet I am dying empty. My life has been just a wastage. Next time, if God gives me another opportunity, I am not going to try money any more - it has failed.

Rajneesh

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

Zelda Fitzgerald

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

Kim Stanley Robinson

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

Charles Spurgeon

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Thomas Carlyle

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.

Douglas Wilson

Products are produced in the factory; brands are produced in our minds.

Martin Lindstrom

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

Bliss Carman

When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.

Craig Groeschel

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

John Stuart Mill

The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so.

John Locke

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.