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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."
"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."
"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."
"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."
"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."
"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."
"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
"Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success."
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"Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might."
"You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you."
"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving."
"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."
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