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"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world."
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"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
"He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace."
"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
"Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today."
"... 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."
"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."
"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."
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
"The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don't become GREED."
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"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."
"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."
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