contentment

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To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

2.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

- Dryden, John

3.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

- Byron, Lord

4.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

- Lao-tzu

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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

- Og Mandino

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Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

7.

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

- Beecher, Henry Ward

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He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

- Socrates

9.

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [St. Paul In Philippians 4:11]

- Bible

11.

To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power.

- Mcclure, Vimalia

12.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

- Socrates

13.

A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.

- Proverb

14.

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.

- American Proverb

15.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

- Fowles, John

16.

Patience is the key to contentment.

- Mohammed

17.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

- Trollope, Anthony

18.

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

- Balguy, John

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Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

- Alban Goodier

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Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.

- Sila-Prabhrita