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“Ignoble contentment takes the place of burning zeal.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
“Even if a dream of different content had the significance of this offence against majesty, it would still have been in place to remember the words of Plato, that the virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Nobody knows what it is to sit on his ass and be content.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
“Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn't need others' approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself” Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
“Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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Song of Myself (1)
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