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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."
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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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"... 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 individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
Dream
"Consciousness is a born hermit."
Consciousness
"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."
Philosophy
"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
Friendship
"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
Change
"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
Fun
"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
Man
"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
Man
"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
Life
"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
Knowledge
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