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• God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Doe, Needs

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• It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

  Robert Southey

  Dream, Nature, Men

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• One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Happiness, Joyful, Should

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Complete Plays: 1920-1931”, New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press

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• This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

  Hermann Hesse

  Feelings, Harmony, Existence

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Partying for the Planet and Dancing With God (at Burning Man)" by Leah Lamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Spiritual, Desire, Add

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• If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

  Saadi

  Treasure, Riches, Asks

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• All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

  Winslow Homer

  House, Lovely

  Winslow Homer, John Wilmerding (1972). “Winslow Homer”

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• A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Artist, Great Art

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

  Alan Lightman

  Live Life, Butterfly, Sadness

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.47, Vintage

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• As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

  Anthony Trollope

  Retirement, Work, Parent

  Anthony Trollope (1983). “The Letters of Anthony Trollope”, p.691, Stanford University Press

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• When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

  Florence Welch

  Heartbroken, Creativity, Thinking

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• The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

  Richard Sharp

  Lying, Long, Secret

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• Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

  Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

  Men, Want

  Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1948). “What is man”

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• People are never free of trying to be content.

  Murray Bookchin

  People, Trying

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• They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

  Pietro Aretino

  Suffering, Merit, Misery

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  He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

  Og Mandino

  Lying, Effort, Joy

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• True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Attitude

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.104

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• Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

  Dawn Powell

  Love, Peace, Rushing

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  James K. Polk

  Country, Patriotic, Sublime

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

  Mary Antin

  Morning, School, Pride

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Believe, Desire

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• My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

  Charles Lamb

  Wish, Littles, Anticipation

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.89

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• Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

  Aesop

  Life, Wisdom, Winning

  Aesop (1989). “Aesop's Fables”, Outlet

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