"The secret of contentment is never to allow……" — P.D. James
"The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting."
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in… — Chinua Achebe
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher… — Jane Austen
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they… — Teresa of Avila
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow… — Charles Babbage
- Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. — Richard Bach
- Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were… — Afrika Bambaataa
- I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay
- Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
- An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
- You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things… — Mortimer Adler