Content Quotes

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When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth.… — Jean Vanier
What's this?" Nick said. "Bedtime?" No one answered him. I kept my eyes closed. You look positively content, Clayton," Nick continued, thumping down on the… — Kelley Armstrong
The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between… — Richelle Mead
The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his… — Milan Kundera
As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not… — Christopher Hitchens
Iâ€™m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Iâ€™ve seen a chunk of the universe,… — Ann Aguirre
If you try to find a replacement, you'll be sadly disappointed, I can't be replaced. I'm the only man in all the world who possesses… — Loretta Chase
Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed… — Kurt Vonnegut
He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of… — William Shakespeare
If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure â€“ attractively packaged but inferior in content. — Alan Watts
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. — Chuck Palahniuk
Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She… — Steig Larsson
He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval,… — Emily Bronte
All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the… — Nicole Krauss
The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream. — Christopher Pike
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory — James Stephens
It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting;… — Antonin Sertillanges
Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation… — Christopher Ryan

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