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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a read more
If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and read more
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.
