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"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
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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."
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"Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want."
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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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"I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism."
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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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"There is satisfaction in serving."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
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"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
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"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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"Only one thing is necessary: we should all have a pure heart, with no anger, hatred, irritation, or hostility in it. If you feel hostility toward another person, think about their inner state. Do not think about yourself, or that you want to prove yourself right. In your quiet, inner thoughts, try to find the good in others. Do not say anything bad about others, even in your own thoughts. When you interact with a person, try to find as much common ground as possible, the more the better, and try to nurture this feeling. To cease being angry with a person and instead to seek peace, forgiveness and love toward him, remind yourself of any sins you may have in common and compare them."
Spiritual
"Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all. To unite all? Pierre asked himself. "No, not to unite. Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need! Yes, one must harness them, must harness them!"
Philosophy
"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Family
"Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong."
Philosophy
"Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point of a blade of grass."
Nature
"When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed."
History
"Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be."
Social
"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"
Virtue
"Perhaps you think I'm losing the thread of my thought? Not a bit of it! I'm still telling you the story of how I murdered my wife, They asked me in court how I killed her, what I used to do it with. Imbeciles! They thought I killed her that day, the fifth of October, with a knife. It wasn't that day I killed her, it was much earlier. Exactly in the same way as they're killing their wives now, all of them..."
Crime
"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
History
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