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"Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want."

"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."

"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."

"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."

"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."

"... 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."

"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."

"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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"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."

"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."

"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."

"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."
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