Quotes: contentment
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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.
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As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
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Socrates
Greek philosopher
469 BC - 399 BC
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
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Socrates
Greek philosopher
469 BC - 399 BC
He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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Buddha
Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama
ca. 450 BC - ca. 370 BC
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Source: A Distant Mirror
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
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It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
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Eugene O'Neill
American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature
1888-1953
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
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Buddha
Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama
ca. 450 BC - ca. 370 BC
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
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The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
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