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"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
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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 ."
"Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today."
"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."
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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."
"At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second."
"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness..."
"Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement."
"I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it."
"All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair."
"There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead."
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