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Contentment Quotes
"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
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"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."
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"Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success."
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"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
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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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"He is rich that is satisfied."
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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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"Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want."
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"I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism."
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"I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife."
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"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
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"Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?"
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"When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence."
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"Savour a slow-paced contented life."
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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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"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
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"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
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"I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time."
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"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."
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"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world."
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"You can be happy where you are."
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