"The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better."
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"Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has."
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"I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how sure we would then be of doing His Holy Will, which is our sole aspiration, and how much peace and contentment we would enjoy, or so it seems to me!"
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"Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want."
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"Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got."
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"Contentment is the result of a limited imagination."
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"If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few."
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"There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing."
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"The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world."
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"Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth."
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"True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors."
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"We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity."
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"A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness"
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"Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety."
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"Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather."
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"Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them."
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"Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness."
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"...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver."
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"It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have."
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"They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch."
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