#content

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

— James Mackintosh

#never #right

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#experiences #form #future #future life #gave

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#complain #desires #despotism #discontented #his

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 teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#absolute truth #allowed #content #him #latitude

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#because #cannot #contented #happy #we cannot

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