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"True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it."
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"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past, and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."
Change
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
Society
"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
Fun
"There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial."
Integrity
"We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting."
Peace
"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
Governance
"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
Perspective
"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."
Health
"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
Nature
"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
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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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"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was."
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"He is rich that is satisfied."
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"Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else."
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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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"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."
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"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
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"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."
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"He who is contented is rich."
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