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Contentment Quotes
"He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace."
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"Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want."
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"First seek happiness from within, then you will find it without."
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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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"Contentment should not be confused with smugness. Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures."
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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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"I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been 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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"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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"There is satisfaction in serving."
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"Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?"
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"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
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"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
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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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"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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"You can be happy where you are."
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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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"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was."
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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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"He is rich that is satisfied."
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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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"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
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"The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men."
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"Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want."
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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
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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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"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
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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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"I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism."
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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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"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
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"Happiness springs up from within. Do not seek it without."
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"Life is what it is...And even without having everything you desire...It is still gloriously beautiful..."
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"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."
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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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"Savour a slow-paced contented life."
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"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."
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"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."
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"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."
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"When I am centered on love I don't need to be better than you. I don't need to be rich. I don't even need to be extraordinary. When I am centered on love, who I am and where I am at is enough."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
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