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Letter "C" » contentment
«The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.»
«The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach»
«The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory»
«Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.»
Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach
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abundance, awareness, contentment, grateful, Open and, Peace of, peace of mind, surely
«The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulus.»
Author: Billy Graham
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«The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.»
«True humility is contentment.»
«What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
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brood, brooded, broods, carefully, classes, contentment, cursed, detested, detesting, detests, fat, hated, healthiness, optimism, preserved, prosperous
«True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
active, agriculture, arduous, contentment
«We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of»
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