#content

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#come #content #dreams #hope #hundredth

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#difficult #find #how #i #just

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#am #be strong #being #better #content

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content. ↗

— Evan Dando

#band #been #completely #content #dream

Today you can't go by the titles of the shows to know what the content of the show may be. ↗

— Donna Douglas

#go #know #may #show #shows

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #first #i #man #me

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#angola #beds #been #contents #deciding

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#become #bestow #content #earnest #fleeting

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. ↗

— James Mackintosh

#never #right

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#boring #content #fool #future #future generations