All Quotes By Tag: Contentment
“We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want – or near enough.”
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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
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“Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.”
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“Happiness isn’t a thing. You can’t go out and get it like a cup of tea. It’s the way you feel about things.”
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“Lord, make me nowAs happy as the field.With flowers enriched…”
“You don’t have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.”
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“In a person’s lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.”
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“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
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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.”
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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
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“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
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“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
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“That very breath wherewith they utter their complaints is a blessing and a fundamental one too for if God would withdraw that they were incapable of whatsoever else either have or desire.”
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“When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth.”
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“Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.–”