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Thursday, 4 September 2008
Daily Quote:
"With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." (Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell - Perseverance)

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Browse Quotations about Contentment

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
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.
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [St. Paul In Philippians 4:11]


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