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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.
Lin Yutang
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.
James Mackintosh
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
George MacDonald
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
Proverb
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali
There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.
Gordon Graham
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.
John Locke
