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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 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."

"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

"He is rich that is satisfied."

"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."

"The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity."

"The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in."

"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."

"The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this."

"All you need is what you have."

"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."
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"Intelligence will teach you how to make a living, wisdom will teach you how to make a life."

"A diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it."

"School is a hospital where people recover from ignorance, life is a hospital where people recuperate from arrogance."

"The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change."
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