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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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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."
"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."
"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."
"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."
"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."
"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
"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."
"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was."
"He is rich that is satisfied."
"Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else."
"I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great."
"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."
"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."
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