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We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

But now, in the final hours, even hope had vanished. Yet he could smile. At a point without hope he ...

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If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contente...

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We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

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Roald DahlCharlie and the Chocolate Factory

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's...

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Russell BrandBooky Wook 2: This Time it's Personal

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd...

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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most...

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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

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SocratesEssential Thinkers - Socrates

There was a man with tongue of woodWho essayed to sing,And in truth it was lamentable.But there was ...

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And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every...

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Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

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Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

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Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

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Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

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Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

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Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

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Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

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Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

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She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes a...

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She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects...

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Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

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Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

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Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

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Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

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So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes...

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...you play the instrument you have.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home.

I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all ...

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

Most beautiful of all was the tarnished gold of the elms, with a little brown in it, a little bronze...

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In the widely open cup of the armchair was I-330. I, on the floor, embracing her limbs, my head on h...

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"Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man."

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place...

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Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experie...

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Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis o...

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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over ...

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the ...

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Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his...

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Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!

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Angela CarterNights at the Circus

You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love, Edith.''No, I am not,' she said, slowly. 'I...

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The angel of God, having secretly Betrothed us one winter day,Watches over our carefree livesWith fi...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home...

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Anthony BourdainKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Happiness, after all, is generally measured as reported satisfaction with one's life - a state of mi...

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Barbara EhrenreichBright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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What you have made me see,' answered the Lady, 'is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Y...

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We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was ...

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It is not simply that God has arbitrarily made us such that He is our only good. Rather God is the o...

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I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no ra...

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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above t...

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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 qua...

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Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? W...

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Godliness with contentment is rare.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what y...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankin...

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...are you happy?""I am content.""What is the difference?""Between happiness and contentment? Ah, th...

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If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finish...

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Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about ...

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...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that some...

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ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd bee...

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Dorothy ParkerThe Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the wor...

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Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced...

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The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but ...

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Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like bandit - wil...

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At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...

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The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going ...

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The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but ...

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Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjus...

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True affluence is not needing anything.

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; ...

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She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly ...

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It was not desirable for the proles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them...

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It was not desirable for the paroles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of the...

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I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen ...

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There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who loo...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.