#contented

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me. ↗

— Karen Carpenter

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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

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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

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I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. ↗

— Michael Gambon

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

— Walter Savage Landor

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Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate. ↗

— Louis XIV

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

— James Mackintosh

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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

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