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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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"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
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"If I continually focus on what I don't have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it's completely full."
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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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"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
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"Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today."
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"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
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"... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again."
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"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."
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"I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence."
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"I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got."
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
Life
"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
Adaptation
"Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones."
Recognition
"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."
Knowledge
"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
Strength
"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still."
Time
"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair."
Courage
"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."
Fool
"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."
Contentment
"He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation."
Hardship
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