Contentment Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

“Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.” quote by Christian Nestell Bovee — Download Open image

“Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.”

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There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

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There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

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Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight…

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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

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He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

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In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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I may not have everything I want in life but I have all I will ever need to make my life complete, my family.

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If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand…

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There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,…

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“When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.”

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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it…

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Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more

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Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

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Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have.

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“I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were…

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I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how…

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