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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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"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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"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
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"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."
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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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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment."
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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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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment."
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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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"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."
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"All you need is what you have."
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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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"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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"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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"Contentment is the greatest wealth."
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"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."
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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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"The whole world would be much happier if everyone was just average."
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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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"... 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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"True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it."
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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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"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."
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"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
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"We preoccupy ourselves with what we had - or what we want to have - at the expense of what we have."
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"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."
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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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"How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning."
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"There is satisfaction in serving."
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"The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself, self-love."
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"It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace."
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"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
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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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"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
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"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
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"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
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"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."
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"I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along."
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"He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace."
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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 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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"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was."
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"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
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