#contentment

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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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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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home. ↗

— J. Maarten Troost

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