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• Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.

  Joyce Meyer

  Decision, Feelings, Life Is

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• The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

  T. D. Jakes

  Popularity, Plagiarism, Lows

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• In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. Perhaps it's one that fills you with contentment and endows you with a level of courage and an acceptance that you didn't know you possessed.Or maybe not.

  James Lee Burke

  Heart, Acceptance, Numbers

  James Lee Burke (2010). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of Life.

  Gary Zukav

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Caring

  "How Anger and Jealousy Can Be Good for You" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2012.

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• The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Strength, Courage, Pain

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• A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness

  Dalai Lama

  Keys, Attaining Happiness, Factors

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Ambition, Fruit

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• There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Women, Home, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Rain, America

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• It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.... We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father—a noble, pious man.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Husband, Father, Health

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.32, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• 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

  Needs, Nightmare, Inexplicable

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• All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.

  Wendell Berry

  Pride, Men, Rivers

  Wendell Berry (2009). “The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry”, p.29, Counterpoint Press

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• The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.

  Billy Graham

  Soul, Bitter, Life Is

  Billy Graham (1977). “The Secret of Happiness”, Pocket

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• When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.

  Hannah More

  Vanity, Emulation, Looks

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• Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

  David Bowie

  People, Age, World

  "New Again: David Bowie". Interview with Patrick Salvo, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2012.

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• unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,
  of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.
  Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan
  useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Boredom, Mind

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Giving, Doe, Pieces

  "Landscapes of the mind" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.

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• Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

  Alain de Botton

  World, Morality, Madness

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• Adultery is the vice of equivocation.
  It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.

  Alexander Theroux

  Art, Color, Law

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• Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

  Josh Billings

  Useless, Show Me, Shows

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• It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

  Bliss Carman

  Heart, Good Friend, Men

  Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page

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• Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Amazon, Culture

  "Ursula K Le Guin launches broadside on Amazon's 'sell it fast, sell it cheap' policy" by Marta Bausells, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2015.

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• A grateful person is rich in contentment.

  David A. Bednar

  Grateful, Rich, Persons

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• There's only what you choose, and how you can have it. If you choose peace and joy and love, you won't get much of it through what you're doing. If you choose happiness and contentment, you'll find little of that on the path of doingness. If you choose reunion with God, supreme knowing, deep understanding, endless compassion, total awareness, absolute fulfillment, you won't achieve much of that out of what you're doing.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Love You

  "The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 2005.

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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

  Heart, Talent, Console

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