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"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
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"I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace."
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"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
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"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
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"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
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"He who is contented is rich."
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"Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success."
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"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
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"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
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"He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace."
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
Freedom
"Freedom - to walk free and own no superior."
Freedom
"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."
Art
"Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all."
Adventure
"The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity."
Art
"Oh captain my captain."
Leadership
"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."
Death
"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."
Poetry
"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."
Language
"I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content."
Self
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