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"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."
"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."
"Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing."
"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."
"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."
"There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time."
"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
"Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success."
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"The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world."
"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
"I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest."
"Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?"
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