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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
Epicurus Quotes |
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“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
Frederick Keonig Quotes |
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“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
Keith Sweat Quotes |
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“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty”
Socrates Quotes |
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“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.”
Lao Tzu Quotes |
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“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”
Swami Sivananda Quotes |
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“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.”
Bertolt Brecht Quotes |
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“We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.”
Proverb Quotes |
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“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”
John Balguy Quotes |
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“Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.”
Aesop Quotes |
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“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.”
John Dryden Quotes |
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“Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.”
John Fowles Quotes |
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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.”
Lin Yu-t'ang Quotes |
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“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.”
Thomas C. Haliburton Quotes |
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“The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.”
Hung Ko Quotes |
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“Patience is the key to contentment.”
Mohammed Quotes |
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“It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.”
James Mackintosh Quotes |
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“If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.”
Jim Fiebig Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.”
Vivian Greene Quotes |
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“What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.”
French Proverb Quotes |
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“Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.”
Frederick Douglass Quotes |
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“Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.”
Spanish Proverb Quotes |
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“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.”
John Balguy Quotes |
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