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Contentment Quotes (page 6)

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. Voltaire
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Being content with what you have already is an art form that..."
Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else. Elizabeth Gilbert
To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are. Virginia Woolf
The sailors do not mind the arrangement, for they know that this way there will, at the least, be one person who, at the last, will notice when they do not come back from the sea, and will mourn their loss; and their wives content themselves with the certain knowledge that their husbands are also unfaithful, for there is no competing with the sea in a man's affections, since she is both mother and mistress, and she will wash his corpse also, in time to come, wash it to coral and ivory and... Neil Gaiman
George Eliot quote: "I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me..."
I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content. George Eliot
Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly! Samuel Johnson
When first I saw Isidore, I believed he would help me to enjoy it I believed he would be content with my being a pretty girl; and that we should meet and part and flutter about like two butterflies, and be happy Charlotte Bronte
Anthony Trollope quote: "Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human,..."
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower. Anthony Trollope
Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be. Marcus Aurelius
Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding. Steig Larsson
people always think that happiness is a far away thing, something complicated and hard to get. yet, little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. those little things make happiness. Betty Smith
Take all away. I am content to know. Such love is mine-for life is all too brief. To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so. Ruth Graham
Charles Dickens quote: "Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are..."
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. Charles Dickens
He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.~ Stephen speaking of Rachael Charles Dickens
H. P. Lovecraft quote: "It is good to be a cynic? it is better to be a contented cat?..."
It is good to be a cynic? it is better to be a contented cat? and it is best not to exist at all. H. P. Lovecraft

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