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Abraham Lincoln

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." — Abraham Lincoln
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Og Mandino

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." — Og Mandino
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Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." — Mark Twain
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Walter Landor

"Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest." — Walter Landor
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Mark Twain

"A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval" — Mark Twain
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Mark Twain

"There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level" — Mark Twain
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"A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content." — Proverb Proverbs
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Socrates

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty" — Socrates
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Dalai Lama

"If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation." — Dalai Lama
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare." — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world..." — James Polk
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Mark Twain

"Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment." — Mark Twain
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Bertrand Russell

"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith." — Bertrand Russell
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"Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world." — James Polk
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"God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it." — W. Tozer
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Bible

"If you and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven." — Bible
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"Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get." — Spanish Proverbs
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Socrates

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty." — Socrates
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C.S. Lewis

"You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content." — C.S. Lewis
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"When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment." — Author Unknown
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"To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment." — George Woodberry
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Bruce Lee
Birth: 1940-11-27 Death: 1973-07-20

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"Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will."

Born in San Francisco, Bruce Lee was a skilled master of the martial arts and an actor. Often getting into fights as a child, he used Kung Fu to teach himself discipline. He was taught by Yip Men, a master in his own right. Lee improved upon his skills, eventually creating his own style known as Jeet Kune Do. Moving to Seattle to complete studies in philosophy at the University of Washington, Lee took some small roles in films, then got his big break as Kato in the Green Hornet television series. His movies, including Game of Death, which was unfinished at the time of his death, helped…

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