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If ever there is a time when I can meet you in a world where I'm healthy, I will be contented to love you instead. – BreAnna Thunder horse hale	added by Brehale 2 years ago
You will go further, even if you may not acquire wealth, but you will be happier and well contented if you go via the straight path in life -- that is honesty and integrity. – Vicente Lim	added by anonymous 5 years ago
In the surroundings of an opera performance, once I am deep in it, I am living it. Between the acts and in my dressing room to change costumes, I do not realize I am Rosa Ponselle. I seem instead to be Aida, Gioconda, Norma--the woman I am singing. And when the last curtain falls, I am a rag--but contented. – Rosa Ponselle	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
I'm not contented with 6-12 years ... but what's important is he will be sent to jail. – Marilou Laude	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. – Lucretius	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. – Socrates	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy. – Anatole France	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth. – The Hitopadesa	added by anonymous 12 years ago
If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 12 years ago
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. – Charles Lamb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know. – Cowper	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A contented mind is a continual feast. – American Proverb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. – Lewis Thomas	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot? – Kathleen Norris	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. – Socrates	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A contented mind is the best source for trouble. – Titus Maccius Plautus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. – Sir James MacKintosh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation. – Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Progress is not created by contented people. – Frank Tyger	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do. – Phillips Brooks	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who does not care for Heaven but is contented where he is, is already in Heaven. – H Hahn Blavatsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. – Horace	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. – Pearl Bailey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be contented when you have got all you want. – Holbrook Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

If ever there is a time when I can meet you in a world where I'm healthy, I will be contented to love you instead.

– BreAnna Thunder horse hale

added by Brehale
2 years ago

You will go further, even if you may not acquire wealth, but you will be happier and well contented if you go via the straight path in life -- that is honesty and integrity.

– Vicente Lim

added by anonymous
5 years ago

In the surroundings of an opera performance, once I am deep in it, I am living it. Between the acts and in my dressing room to change costumes, I do not realize I am Rosa Ponselle. I seem instead to be Aida, Gioconda, Norma--the woman I am singing. And when the last curtain falls, I am a rag--but contented.

– Rosa Ponselle

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

I'm not contented with 6-12 years ... but what's important is he will be sent to jail.

– Marilou Laude

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

– Lucretius

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

– Socrates

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.

– Anatole France

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth.

– The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
12 years ago

If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

– Francis Quarles

added by anonymous
12 years ago

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

– Charles Lamb

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.

– Cowper

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A contented mind is a continual feast.

– American Proverb

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

– Lewis Thomas

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

– Kathleen Norris

added by anonymous
13 years ago

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

– Socrates

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

– Titus Maccius Plautus