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"Contentment should not be confused with smugness. Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures."
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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."

"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
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"Had the love been perennial, there won't have been murders of wives by husbands and murders of husbands by wives, who were lovers at a point of time."

"Fear is the worst enemy of sex. If a man is afraid of something, he will start losing interest in sex. And, eventually he may become impotent."

"The literature hardly helps. You remember it only when you are well, healthy, and in a positive state of mind. And you tend to blame your circumstances and people around you for the outcome of the follies you commit."

"In any relationship, frequent usage of two words is very important. They can change the course of destiny. These words are ' Thank You, and Sorry."

"As the lines on the palm and forehead turned darker and thicker, as he matured along the highs and lows of life - wave, the hazy and blurred phrases shook off the dust of time and dried the moisture of pain, thus being vivid like an image on a carved glass. The incidences in his life ahead sharpened the blunt edges of diamond and the hitherto blurred prophecies found meaning, found reflection like that in a mirror."

"Sometimes we are able to better understand a theory or concept through a story, such stories teach you, enlighten you, and entertain you at the same time."

"Everybody may have gone through the sufferings and pains of falling and failing in love earlier, may be many times."
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