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I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to… — Margaret George
After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like… — Patrick Rothfuss
A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to… — Mo Willems
India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it,… — Thrity Umrigar
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you… — Charles Spurgeon
Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give… — Ruth Graham
At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them,… — Desiderius Erasmus
The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we… — Richard Rohr
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. — Henry Fielding
Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content. — Epictetus
He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment… — Anna Godbersen
And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the… — Daniel Webster
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not… — William Ellery Channing
We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also; and, proud-spirited beings… — Jerome K. Jerome
I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I… — Charles Bukowski
And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his… — Charles Dickens
It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to… — Richard Rohr
Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the… — Steven Galloway
She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertaiment… — Emily Bronte
how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman... — Daphne du Maurier
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,… — Carl Jung
Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death. — Seth Grahame-Smith

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