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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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• [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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• Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Secret, World, Increase

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.87, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Mean, Men

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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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• Contentment is an undervalued grace.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Grace, Undervalued

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• My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.

  Anne Lamott

  Dog, Feelings, Deodorant

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.30, Anchor

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• Total contentment is only for cows.

  Bette Midler

  Cows

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• I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that we are connected and we are all still humans, and we are all still looking for the same sort of contentment in our life in one way or another. Some people are searching a little harder than others, granted. But we're not so different.

  Buck Brannaman

  People, Different, Littles

  "Buck Brannaman & Director Cindy Meehl Interview BUCK". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 17, 2011.

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• If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

  Hosea Ballou

  Men, Enemy, Needs

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

  Danielle LaPorte

  Joy

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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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• 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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• Skateboarding and that whole industry just became so far away. I was trying to find that ultimate place, that place of contentment but I couldn't. I didn't find it in pushing the dark things of life to the limit either.

  Christian Hosoi

  Dark, Trying, Skateboarding

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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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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• 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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• Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

  Mark Coleman

  Happy, Nature, Simplicity

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• Contentment is knowing you're right

  Bill Bailey

  Knowing

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• If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Analysis, Asking, Middle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.208, Penguin

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• Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings; but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Perfect, Soul

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.91

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• The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, People, Important

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• Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.

  Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Tree, Growth, Mind

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• We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Compassion, Tolerance

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• Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Punishment, People

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• Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.

  John Dalton

  Wise, Loyalty, Fall

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