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"Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under society's so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know I'm not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the making and spending of money. I know it's not just me."
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"I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace."

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

"He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace."

"He is rich that is satisfied."

"Savour a slow-paced contented life."

"If I continually focus on what I don't have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it's completely full."

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."

"The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity."

"The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in."
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"A silence overtook the odd family in their odd surroundings as loss became the mockery of the moment, and they were caught up in the emotional release that is common in a theater audience after the sudden ending of a tragic movie; the curtain closes and the people are still in their seats, numb and sighing their way back into reality."

"Evil stinks and it doesn't disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed."

"Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died."

"Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don't."

"It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised."

"Now, it's time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that's gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin' a lie to his son from his death bed. What's the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?"
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