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

— William Ames

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

— Buddha

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True contentment comes with empathy. ↗

— Tim Finn

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

— Thomas Fuller

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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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Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement. ↗

— Dawn Powell

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I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing. ↗

— Irene Hunt

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