"Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the……" — George A. Smith
"Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul."
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17 Quotes by George A. Smith
George A. Smith has 17 quotes on this site.
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience…
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The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.
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To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
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We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
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If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself…
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Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties…
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Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
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Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best…
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Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
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Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
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There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in…
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More Contentment Quotes
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There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
— Abu Bakr
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world…
— J. G. Ballard
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
— Joseph Addison
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion…
— Harold Brodkey
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
— Bertolt Brecht
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
— Fanny Burney
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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no…
— Chanakya
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
— Coco Chanel
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it…
— Stewart Alsop
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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
— William Ames
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