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• The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

  Doug Larson

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

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• At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds

  Michael Dorris

  Love, Loyalty, Grief

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• Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

  Josh Billings

  Men, World, Laziness

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• Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

  Dennis Adonis

  Swimming, Sea, Tuna

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• I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Thinking, Want

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• I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

  Alison Krauss

  Looks, Bliss

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• 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.

  Claude Monet

  Enough, Should

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• Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Principles, Add

  Laurence Sterne (1811). “The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life”, p.240

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• Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

  Thomas Fuller

  Fire, Fuel

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• When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Focus, Anxiety

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.41, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

  William Ames

  Perfection, Joy, Height

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• It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

  Robert Southey

  Men, Absolutes

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• A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Happiness, Country

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

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• Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

  Epictetus

  Inspire, Want, Wealth

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• True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Power, Agriculture

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• It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

  Bernie Siegel

  Love Life, Mind, And Love

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• Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Short Life, Appreciate

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• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Respect, Being Yourself

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• Who is wise?
  He that learns from everyone.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Awe Inspiring

  Benjamin Franklin (1976). “Poor Richard: An Almanack”, David McKay Company

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• Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

  Guy Finley

  Heart, Wish, Realizing

  "Step Into True Wholeness" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Lying, Fall

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• True contentment comes with empathy.

  Tim Finn

  Encouragement, Empathy, No Empathy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

  P. D. James

  Secret, Want, Chance

  P.D. James (2015). “P. D. James’s Cordelia Gray Mysteries: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

  Plato

  Being Happy, Plato, Greatest Wealth

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