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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.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

If at eighty you're not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good ...

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For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid w...

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Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be...

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She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful vi...

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What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had ...

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Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such ...

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If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can ...

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Jerome K. JeromeIdle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessing...

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I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased...

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I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the th...

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It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, becaus...

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The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him ...

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy the...

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She had the experience to suffer with discretion.

I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal a...

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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at,...

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All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only ...

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Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full c...

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That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...

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If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Be...

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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacki...

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Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with one...

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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest ...

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Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady...

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Larry McMurtryRoads : Driving America's Great Highways

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...

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The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being...

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Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative...

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

...those who deny or oppose these so pleasant delights (of virtue), do so only from jealousy, you ma...

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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...

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Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

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We need much less than we think we need.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

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Neal A. MaxwellThe Complete Works of Neal A. Maxwell

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment...

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A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in t...

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Omar KhayyámEdward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have,...

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The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you hav...

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The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what ha...

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P. G. WodehouseA Pelican at Blandings

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.