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"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."
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"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
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"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
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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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"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
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"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
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"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
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"Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life."
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"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
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"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
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"Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."
Life
"She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making."
Self
"They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity."
Peace
"As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep."
Marriage
"Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life."
Loneliness
"It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other."
Reality
"The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay."
Change
"Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!"
Truth
"It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes."
Perception
"I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self."
Relationship
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