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"True humility is contentment."
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"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
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"True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
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"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
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"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."
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"True contentment comes with empathy."
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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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"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."
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"I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great."
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"Savour a slow-paced contented life."
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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
Art
"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
Life
"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
Truth
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Age
"Order is power."
Power
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
Thought
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
Life
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
Quality
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
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"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
Difficulty
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