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• There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

  Sivananda

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  Harold Brodkey

  Perfect, Entering, World

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• Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

  George A. Smith

  Health, Simple, Men

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• You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

  Keith Sweat

  Relationship, Soulmate, Wedding Anniversary

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• If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

  Dalai Lama

  Simple, Shelter, Life Is

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• I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Friendship, Family

  Walt Whitman, “I Sing The Body Electric”

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• If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

  Leon Kass

  Happiness, Happy, Self

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• There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Mind, Disease

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• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

  Vivien Greene

  Inspirational, Soulmate, Circumstances

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• My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Heart, Crowns

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (1993). “The Third Part of King Henry VI”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• He is the richest who is content with the least.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Greek, Wealth

  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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• Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

  Aesop

  Elements

  Aesop (2011). “Aesop's Fables 01-30 (伊索寓言（第一篇至第三十篇）)”, p.704, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Death, Humor

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• Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Life, Travel, Haunting

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• Ask often, be content of little, reward always.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Often Is, Asking

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• Contentment is a pearl of great price

  John Balguy

  Pearls

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• Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Heart, Embrace

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• Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Life, Being Happy

  Imitation of Horace bk. 3, ode 29, l. 65 (1685)

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• Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

  Horace

  Fear, Atheism, Today

  Horace (1961). “Odes and Epodes: In the original Latin and in English translations”

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• Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Simplicity, Rich Poor

  1603-4 Iago to Othello. Othello, act 3, sc.3, l.176-8.

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• A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

  John Locke

  Happiness, Two, Mind

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moving, Mean, Appreciate

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• Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

  John Balguy

  Happiness, Wise, Inner Peace

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