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Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious - every portion of you recognizes home.  That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ↗

— Jack Dee

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I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contented in retirement. ↗

— Anna Harrison

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It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. ↗

— Thomas Hood

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. ↗

— Horace

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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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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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