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Contentment means embracing a sense of satisfaction and sufficiency. Contentment sees the cup half full, the beauty and bounty that are available to us. It allows us to take pleasure in what we have and what we are, even life's simplest offerings. It frees us from envy and longing and so makes us generous.


Although contentment is influenced by external circumstances, it is an internal attitude and can be cultivated no matter what our situation. Contentment looks for the riches that can be found amidst poverty and the small marvels that can be found in the most dire conditions. It is the close kin of gratitude and wonder.

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tell me did you sail across the sun, did you make it tp the milky way to see the lights are faded, that heaven is overrated

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the song drops of jupiter
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It's not who you are, it's what you do that matters

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Todd Cloutier
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Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.” -

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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"Beautiful Boy"
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The same lesson keeps presenting itself to me. As soon as I rebound, I will be presented with the same lesson.

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from me
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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

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Never say an unkind word to anyone. (--7 simple words to live by )

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The best things in life are ridiculous.

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Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable?

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The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

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I am every age I've ever been.

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Quoted in Lois's obituary after her death on 2/15/09
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Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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Trust in Allah and tie up your camel.

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Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

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Talmud
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Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man.
Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.
Joy is wealth.

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What's God Got to Do With It?
by Tim Page
Page 52 ("The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child", 1877)
Published by Steerforth Press , Hanover, NH , 2005
http://www.amazon.com/Whats-God-Got-Ingersoll-Separation/dp/1586420968/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224970457&sr=8-1
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

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Virtues Reflection Cards
http://www.virtuesproject.com
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Love came up to me showing me that a contented mind is best for growth.

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The Yasna 43
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A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

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Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

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There are two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

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Our life is frittered away by detail.  Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

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The Sun
Page 48
Sunbeams
Volume: 391
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When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

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Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
Published by Amitabha Publications , Temple City, CA , 2003
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Contribution #1435


Be confident, cheerful and contented.  The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace.  To generate these, no other agency or help is required.

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Swami Boomananda Tirtha
http://wiki.seedsofcompassion.org
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There is no spiritual peace for the ignorant, because they desire and seek it in the external world.

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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

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Thomas Fuller
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/contentment_consist_not_in_adding_more_fuel-but/256036.html
Viewed on April 17, 2008
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For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

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Bible
Phillipians 4:11
http://www.answers.com/topic/bible
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Contentment is the greatest form of wealth.

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Acharya Nāgārjuna
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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Joseph Adison
http://www.answers.com/topic/quote-4?author=Addison,%20Joseph&s2=Addison,%20Joseph
Viewed on April 17, 2008
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If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

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Ann Landers
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_love.html
Viewed on April 17, 2008
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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

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Sri Swami Sivanada
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He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

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Socrates
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Once while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, What would you do it you were suddenly to learn that you were to die at sunset today? He replied, I would finish hoeing my garden.

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Viewed on March 31, 2008
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