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"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."
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"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world."
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"When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence."
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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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"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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"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
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"Savour a slow-paced contented life."
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"He who is contented is rich."
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"I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife."
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"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."
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"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more."
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"Riches are chiefly good because they give us time."
Time
"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."
Religion
"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing."
Gratitude
"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
Time
"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength."
Strength
"Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book."
Books
"Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less."
Time
"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."
Beauty
"The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days."
Now
"I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces."
Family
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