Contentment Quotes

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The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world… — Emma Goldman
We need much less than we think we need. — Maya Angelou
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. — Pearl S. Buck
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life… — Alan Lightman
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days,… — Hermann Hesse
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state… — Libba Bray
And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there… — Anne Lamott
She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment,… — Kate Chopin
We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this… — Carolyn Heilbrun
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the… — Hermann Hesse
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. — Victor Hugo
What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in… — Kiran Desai
Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with. — Woody Allen
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who… — Leo Tolstoy
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up;… — Betty Smith
Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment. — Neal A. Maxwell
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex… — Emily Giffin
Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky. — Dr. Seuss

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