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“A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.”
Proverb
“The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way”
Henry Miller
“Probably there is nothing in the world so suggestive of serene contentment and perfect bliss as the spectacle of a calf chewing a dishrag, but the nearest approach to it is your reedy tenor, standing apart, in sickly attitude, with head thrown back a”
Mark Twain
“Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.”
Buddha
“Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck”
“What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life”
Hermann Hesse
“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks”
Charles Dickens
“Contentment is not something to be gained by possession. You can not work simply at being content, but must work at making a difference. True contentment is gained by the difference you make in the lives of others.”
Jill Hanna
“The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach”
Lyn Yutang
“Deliver me from Swedish furniture.Deliver me from clever art......May I never be complete.May I never be content.May I never be perfect.”
Chuck Palahniuk