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“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Intuitive peace and poise, contentment, enduring satisfaction and bliss come through the Pleasure of the Master's Will.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.”
Chief Joseph
“If you and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.”
Bible
“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with”
Plato
“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.”
Camille Paglia
“Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is”
Josh Billings
“The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory”
Robert Southey
“I am happy and content because I think I am”
Alain Rene Lesage
