Contentment Quotes - Page 23

• Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content.

  Bob Iger

  Digital, Needs, Helping

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• All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Writing, Perfect

  Journal, May 1849

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• No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.

  Howard Stringer

  Technology, Understanding, Demand

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• Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

  John Milton

  Enjoy, Enjoyment

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 364

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• Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you're excited about something it's contagious.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Fun, People, Excitement

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• I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the current. . ." It may not be the recipe for a life of contentment, but that imperfectability is what makes writing such an engaging endeavor, something you can do for the rest of your life and not get bored.

  Debra Dean

  Writing, Thinking, Bored

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

  Criss Jami

  Running, Men, Safety

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.88, Criss Jami

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• Who would have ever thought I'd find love, contentment and joy in a prison cell, but I did. I knew that I knew that I knew that day, I'd been released, and I thought to myself, "I need to tell everyone about this" because no one had ever told me.

  Christian Hosoi

  Cells, Joy, Finding Love

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, 'No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.'

  Orison Swett Marden

  Angel, Journey, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1917). “How to Get what You Want”

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• A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

  Stewart Alsop

  Death, Time, Sleep

  Stewart Alsop (2016). “Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.

  Sharon Gannon

  Pain, Loneliness, Sadness

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Admit to your contentment so it can tip over into joy.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Joy

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• The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Men, Soul

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mean, People, Way

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Joy, Inspire

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• [W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

  Murray Rothbard

  Soldier, Enemy, Example

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• Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.

  Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart

  Hands, Suffering, Illness

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• Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

  Charles Frazier

  Believe, Talking, Matter

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• Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

  John C. Maxwell

  Self, Knowing, Needs

  John C. Maxwell (2013). “Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships”, p.48, David C Cook

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• Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Together, Riches, Contention

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.108, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

  Robert Burns

  Body, Care, Merry

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1848). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.78

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• Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.

  Eben Moglen

  Rights, Order, Issues

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• I think that you will see different types of content emerging, just the same as new media generates new content in the physical world. TV created new content, but it didn't mean that radio disappeared.

  Donna Dubinsky

  Mean, Thinking, Media

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• Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Rich, Poor

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical works of William Cowper (with selections from the works of Robert Lloyd [and others]) ed. by R. Bell”, p.58

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• But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

  Franz Kafka

  What If, Comfort, Tranquility

  Franz Kafka (2003). “The Metamorphosis and Other Stories”, Barnes & Noble Classics

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