Quotes with contentment

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  • Socrates Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Socrates He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Lin Yü-tang 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 Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Anthony Trollope 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.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Sarah Ban Breathnach As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
    Sarah Ban Breathnach
    American author and philanthropist
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  • Charles Dickens Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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  • Grenville Kleiser 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.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Boeddha Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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  • Buddha Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Robert Southey 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.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Louis de Bernieres 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.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Eugene O'Neill One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Buddha Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • G. Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
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  • George Edward Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bern Williams We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
    Bern Williams
    English philosopher
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