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#contented

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


Michael Gambon


#contented #fear #get #i #live

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

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.


John Muir


#about #as far as #discontented #far #fast

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.


Norman Vincent Peale


#attitudes #contented #day #days #develop

The discontented man finds no easy chair.


Benjamin Franklin


#discontented #easy #finds #man

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.


Jerome K. Jerome


#cheaper #clear #clear conscience #conscience #contented

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.


Jerome K. Jerome


#enough #foolish #grumble #rest #show

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.


Lewis Thomas


#being #contented #existing #fact #here

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.


Pearl Bailey


#any #certain #circle #contented #ideas

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.


Phillips Brooks


#beating #becomes #contented #day #deeds






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