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Contentment Quote by Claude Monet

“I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from…” quote by Claude Monet — Download Open image

“I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same...”

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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…

Frederick Douglass

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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,…

Maria Edgeworth

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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.”

Ellen J. Barrier

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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?…

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My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is…

William Shakespeare

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

Marianette Carbito

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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.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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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…

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