"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."

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"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."

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"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"True humility is contentment."

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"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."

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"I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"He is rich that is satisfied."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking."This is a prayer of contentment."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."

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"Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say."

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"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."

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"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."

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"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."

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"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us."

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"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down."

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