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Tag Name "Contentment" (418)

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The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. From the spiritual point of view, such a life is the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants and is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.
Meher Baba
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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
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We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Bernard Williams
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
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In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.
Paul Brand
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Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
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Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
Saint John Chrysostom
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We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
Luc de Clapiers
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The key to contentment was to never ask why she had learned that long ago.
Elizabeth Strout
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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
Ray Charles
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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
William Shenstone
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By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.
Michael Neill
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
T. E. Lawrence
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The noblest mind the best contentment has
Edmund Spenser
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No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.
Howard Stringer
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And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that
Emily Giffin
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates
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The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
Tom Shadyac
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Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.
Muhammad
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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
Alexander Pope
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There are two sorts of content one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue the other, a vice.
Maria Edgeworth
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If meditation is going rightly, deep, you will feel transformed throughout the whole day. A subtle contentment will be present every moment. With whatsoever you are doing, you will feel a cool center inside - contentment.
Rajneesh
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