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• I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Meaningful, Life Is Good, Joy

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.37, Penguin

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• What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Giving, Serenity, Kind

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• Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.

  Francois Rabelais

  Blessed, Men, Feet

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• The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

  Tom Shadyac

  Mean, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Want, States

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1862). “Royal Truths, etc”, p.27

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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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• Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Years, Perfection, Vagueness

  "Samuelson's Foundations: The Role of Mathematics in Economics". Journal of Political Economy, Volume 56, June 1948.

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• Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

  Epictetus

  Positive, Uplifting, Money

  Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

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  What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Important, Results

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• Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Healing, Progress, Different

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• Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Rivers, Sides, Mutual

  Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.983, The Floating Press

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• There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

  John Ruskin

  Ambition, Men, Two

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.343

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• Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
  That is contentment.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Should, Success Or Failure

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

  Marc Maron

  Effort, Brain, Overwhelmed

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I give to my friends the assurance that if they will recast their ideas and attitudes about the relative importance of the spiritual to the material, and bring themselves to participate in the mighty cause of establishing God's kingdom in the earth, they will find a satisfaction, a sureness of purpose, a peace and contentment, surpassing anything they have ever known.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Spiritual, Peace, Attitude

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• The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.

  Billy Graham

  Peace, Roots, Giving

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

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• That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Philosophy, Mind, Enough

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• Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give.
  Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it.
  And now I think I have said sufficient.

  Anne Bronte

  Mother, Children, Book

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.743, Penguin

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• Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

  John Tillotson

  Virtue, Piety, Behinds

  John Tillotson (1720). “Works”, p.66

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• It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Feelings, Suffering, Armor

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• Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Letters, Life Is, Filled

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.66, Penguin

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• But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Moving, Science, Play

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• There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
  His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
  Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
  And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  God, Humble, Hands

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• In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.

  Tami Hoag

  Real, Self, Accomplishment

  Tami Hoag (2007). “The Alibi Man”, p.265, Bantam

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