Contentment Quotes
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Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
Tom Shadyac
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Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
Epictetus
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Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.
David Bowie
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Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.
Celia Thaxter
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Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey