Contentment quotations

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◆ We're all golden sunflowers inside.

- Allen Ginsberg99

◆ Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

- Charles M. Schulz99

◆ Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

- Socrates99

◆ If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

- L. Frank Baum99

◆ I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

- Pablo Picasso99

◆ Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

- James Patterson99

◆ The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

- Criss Jami99

◆ A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn99

◆ You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

- Charles H. Spurgeon99

◆ Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

- Ann Brashares99

◆ It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather than thinking of what's left to be done (p. 159).

- John Bingham99

◆ The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

- Plato99

◆ I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

- John Stuart Mill99

◆ It is better to be satisfied with what you have than with what you are.

- Vikrant Parsai99

◆ Some people wish to be pretty/ handsome and famous, or popular but me, I just want to be normal and always happy.

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