"I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same."
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"Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still."
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"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough."
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"It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others."
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"What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution."
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"A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything."
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"Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make."
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"What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life"
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"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."
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"A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all."
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"Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself."
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"Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not."
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"Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence."
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"If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment."
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"It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency."
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"When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom."
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"Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him."
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"The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment."
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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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"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
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