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"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything."

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"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything."

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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."

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"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."

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"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."

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"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."

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"Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing."

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"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."

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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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"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."

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