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Contentment Quotes
"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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"You can be happy where you are."
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"Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location."
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"Learn to thank God for the things you want but cannot have. Matthew 6:25-34."
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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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"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
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"Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed."
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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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"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
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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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"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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"First seek happiness from within, then you will find it without."
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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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"He is rich that is satisfied."
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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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"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 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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"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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"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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"Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want."
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"Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want."
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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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"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 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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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
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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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"Savour a slow-paced contented life."
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"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
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"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."
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"The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don't become GREED."
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"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."
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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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"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."
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"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
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"I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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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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"Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor."
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"Happiness springs up from within. Do not seek it without."
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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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"The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men."
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