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

"After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just."

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."

"Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location."

"The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself, self-love."

"At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn't."

"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."

"I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds."
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"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil."

"Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding."

"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."
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