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Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can… — Nick Hornby
Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope… — Margaret Weis
Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about… — Martin Amis
I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only… — Paulo Coelho
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path. — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any… — William Butler Yeats
My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any… — Shirley Jackson
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that… — Joseph Campbell
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface:… — Roland Barthes
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest… — C.S. Lewis
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch… — George Bernard Shaw
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those… — Carolyn Parkhurst
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant. — Alice Walker
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is — William George Jordan
I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and… — Naomi Novik
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. — George S. Patton
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths. — John Keats
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. — Jane Austen
I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do? — Libba Bray

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