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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Author: Aesop
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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.
Author: John Dryden
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
Author: John Fowles
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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.
Author: Lin Yu-t'ang
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Author: Thomas C. Haliburton
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The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.
Author: Hung Ko
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Patience is the key to contentment.
Author: Mohammed
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It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.
Author: James Mackintosh
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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.
Author: Jim Fiebig
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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.
Author: Plutarch
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It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Author: Vivian Greene
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
Author: French Proverb
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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.
Author: Frederick Douglass
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Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Author: Spanish Proverb
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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.
Author: John Balguy
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He that is well paid is well satisfied.
Author: William Shakespeare
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They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Author: Pietro Aretino
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Author: Socrates
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A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
Author: Fred Estabrook
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Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.
Author: G. C. Lichtenberg
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It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
Author: James Mackintosh
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To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.
Author: Teiga
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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Author: Burton Hills
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Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Author: Spanish Proverb
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Author: Charles Lamb
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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.
Author: Lin Yutang
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Author: George Moore
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Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.
Author: Bill Copeland
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A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
Author: Fred Estabrook
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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Author: Scottish Proverb
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Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Author: Cynthia Nelms
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One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.
Author: Christian Nestell Bovee
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One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Author: Eugene O'neill
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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Author: Thomas C. Haliburton
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There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.
Author: Gordon Graham
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Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Author: Robert Anthony
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
Author: Plautus
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Author: Johann Von Goethe
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Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
Author: John Bunyan
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The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.
Author: Hung Ko
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Author: Anonymous
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The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Author: Allan K. Chalmers
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Author: Henry Miller
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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.
Author: John Balguy
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