Contentment Quotes

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I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found… — Robert Rauschenberg
No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content. — Howard Stringer
Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use,… — Eben Moglen
I think that you will see different types of content emerging, just the same as new media generates new content in the physical world. TV… — Donna Dubinsky
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations… — Rachel Carson
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. — Eugene O'Neill
There is a popular heresy abroad today which states that if a little is good, more is better. Following this dictum creates a life which… — Robert A. Johnson
Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication… — Mahatma Gandhi
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to… — Charles Caleb Colton
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. — Thomas Fuller
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness… — Mahatma Gandhi
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. — Charles Caleb Colton
Money often costs too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. — Epictetus
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — Epictetus
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. — Epictetus
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only… — Epicurus

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