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Contentment Quotes
"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."
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"All you need is what you have."
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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment."
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"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."
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"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."
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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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"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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"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."
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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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"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."
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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment."
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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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"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 preoccupy ourselves with what we had - or what we want to have - at the expense of what we have."
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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 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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"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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"I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along."
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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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"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
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"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
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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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"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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"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
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"True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it."
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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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"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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"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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"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
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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 began to feel like a kept man and it felt great."
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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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"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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"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
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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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"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."
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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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"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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"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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"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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