"There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment."
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"It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care."
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"Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth."
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"If one's life is simple, contentment has to come."
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"I love to go and see all the things I am happy without."
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"I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me."
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"Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it."
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"Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content."
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"Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough."
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"Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment."
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"Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living."
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"Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily."
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"Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy."
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"Let your capital be simplicity and contentment."
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"Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied."
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"Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance."
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"The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment."
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"Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants."
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"Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor."
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"Be satisfied with what you have."
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