#contented

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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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

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I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me. ↗

— Karen Carpenter

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense 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 Hobbes

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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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He who is contented is rich. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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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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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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