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Content is not the pathway to great deeds. by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
pathways contentment deeds

When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.

Elliot Perlman
contentment age trying

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

Elizabeth Gilbert
heartbreaking inability contentment
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. by Ellis Peters

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

Ellis Peters
contentment nature spring

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

Ellen Glasgow
contentment nature land

And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that

Emily Giffin
contentment doe thinking
Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety. by Emily Dickinson

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

Emily Dickinson
contentment gains expectations
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable for... by Epictetus

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus
contentment meditation inspirational
Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great deligh... by Epictetus

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

Epictetus
delight contentment littles
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants... by Epictetus

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

Epictetus
contentment want inspire

Contentment: The smother of invention.

Ethel Mumford
invention contentment design
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for... by Eugene O'Neill

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Eugene O'Neill
joyful contentment happiness

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

Francis Bacon
contentment giving knowledge

Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

Frank A. Clark
hungry contentment may
Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment. by Frank Delaney

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

Frank Delaney
contentment should enemy

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

Franz Kafka
what-if contentment comfort

We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
republic contentment development

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

Frederick William Robertson
fitting contentment spirit
The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of... by Frederick Lenz

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

Frederick Lenz
buddhism contentment mind
Familiarity breeds contentment. by George Ade

Familiarity breeds contentment.

George Ade
familiarity contentment
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