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• Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.

  W. Phillip Keller

  Hands, Affair, Hallmark

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• No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.

  Emily St. John Mandel

  Dream, Baby, Halloween

  Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.39, Vintage

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• With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

  William Matthews

  Forever, Longing, Strive

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• Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious spiral, as we seek greater and greater gratification but find less and less contentment. . . . Striving to acquire the things of the world not only does not bring lasting happiness and peace, but it drives us to seek more. When "all we've ever wanted" is grounded in the temporal trappings of this world, it is never enough!

  Brent L. Top

  Lasting Happiness, Envy, Greed

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• Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Flower, Long, Joy

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.35, 谷月社

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• What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Men, Feelings

  "Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo".

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• When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Feet, Shoes

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• Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

  T. D. Jakes

  Impact, Events In Life, People

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• Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

  Bob Brown

  Real, Future, Gun

  Bob Brown (2012). “Memo For A Saner World”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

  Larry McMurtry

  Triumph, Youth, Nostalgic

  Larry McMurtry (2000). “Roads: Driving America's Great Highways”

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• Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Appreciate, Worry, Havens

  LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

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• You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

  Lev Grossman

  Other Worlds, Obsessed, Figures

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.456, Penguin

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• We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

  Mike Patton

  CMJ New Music Monthly, April 1995.

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• Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

  Paul Henderson

  Achievement, Doe, Lord

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• Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Reality, Littles, All Things

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.244

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• "And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Laughing, Answers, Gladness

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “The Wounded Land”, p.286, Del Rey

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• The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment

  Ayya Khema

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

  Dalai Lama

  Gratitude, Grateful, Order

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• Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.

  Robert Thurman

  Military, Creativity, Independent

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• Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.

  Julianne MacLean

  Writing, Make You Smile, Earth

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• Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is to their own body and contemplate within. Within the body are the nine treasures of the Name of the Lord—seek the depths of these virtues. Those blessed with the karma of good actions praise the Lord and become true devotees

  Guru Angad

  Karma, Blessed, Names

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• There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

  Sarada Devi

  Treasure, Fortitude, Virtue

  "Holy Mother". "Prabuddha Bharatha" Journal, 1969.

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• In all the years together
  You've shared joy, and contentment too
  Long may it continue
  In the years ahead, for the both of you

  John Walter Bratton

  Anniversary, Years, Long

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• What are these voices outside love's open door
  Make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?
  I'm learning to live without you now
  But I miss you sometimes
  The more I know, the less I understand
  All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again

  Don Henley

  Song, Doors, Voice

  Song: The Heart of the Matter

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• The noblest mind the best contentment has

  Edmund Spenser

  Mind, Self Improvement, Improvement

  Edmund Spenser, Roy Maynard (1999). “Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene”, p.32, Canon Press & Book Service

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