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Contentment Quotes
"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."
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"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."
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"The whole world would be much happier if everyone was just average."
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"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
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"Nobody's life is perfect. Rather than wishing for things you don't have, make the most of the things you do have."
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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment."
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"I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds."
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"We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created."
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"After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just."
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"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
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"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."
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"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
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"Contentment is the greatest wealth."
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"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."
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"Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed."
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"Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location."
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"A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand."
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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment."
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"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."
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"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."
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"All you need is what you have."
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"How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning."
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"I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along."
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"Happy is the man who enjoy warmth of the sun and refresh in the breeze, who is secure within and say I have lived to-day."
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"It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace."
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"At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn't."
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"Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life."
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"Learn to thank God for the things you want but cannot have. Matthew 6:25-34."
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"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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"Contentment should not be confused with smugness. Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures."
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"Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else."
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"It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there's always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have."
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"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."
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"Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today."
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"God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it."
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not."
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"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."
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"True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it."
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"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
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"Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience."
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"Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want."
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"The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this."
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"I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great."
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"I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking."This is a prayer of contentment."
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"... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again."
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