“ He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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“ To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. ”
- Akhenaton- Copy
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“ Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches. ”
- Lucretius- Copy
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“ There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ The contented man is never poor; the discontented never rich. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. ”
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.- Copy
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“ The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. ”
- Lucretius- Copy
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“ Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result. ”
- Elspeth Huxley- Copy
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“ Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. ”
- Samuel Richardson- Copy
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“ Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. ”
- Lewis Thomas- Copy
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“ Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
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“ Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger. ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
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“ A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. ”
- Fred Estabrook- Copy
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“ A kiss is but a kiss now! And no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! We'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave. ”
- George Meredith- Copy
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“ A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people, and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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