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“I figure if I have my health can pay the rent and I have my friends I call it "content."”
“Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.”
“If thou covetest riches ask not but for contentment which is an immense treasure.”
“My crown is called content a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”
“It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.”
“Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.”
“Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.”
“Poor and content is rich and rich enough.”
“Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.”
“True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.”
“To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible.”
“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.”
“No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.”
“Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?”
“What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.”
“I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.”
“It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.”
“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
“Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.”
“No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.”
