#contentment

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. ↗

— William Ames

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From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy. ↗

— James Beattie

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ↗

— Buddha

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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Hume Cronyn

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