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"True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it."
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"I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace."
"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
"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."
"Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success."
"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."
"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
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