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"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
"Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor."
"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."
"There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy."
"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."
"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
"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."
"The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this."
"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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"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
"The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke."
"The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable."
"His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw."
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