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contentment loses
Jose Saramago There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
contentment balance care
Plutarch Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
contentment analysis asking
Ralph Waldo Emerson If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.
contentment useless show-me
Josh Billings Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
contentment littles
John Bunyan I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
contentment
William Shakespeare Our content Is our best having.
contentment rich poor
Benjamin Franklin Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
contentment deeds ifs
Democritus If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.
literature great-work genre
Walter Benjamin All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
literature records discontent
Virginia Woolf literature is the record of our discontent.
literature motto following
Vladimir Nabokov To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.
literature moral censorship
William O. Douglas Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
literature prophet prove
Joseph Addison Jesters do often prove prophets.
literature london able
George Andrew Olah During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.
literature lasts should
James Russell Lowell [B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
literature merit findings
Lord Byron Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
literature stories short-story
John Cheever The short story is the literature of the nomad.
misery poet
William Wordsworth And mighty poets in their misery dead.
misery being-loved
Rod McKuen There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.
misery shame
Samuel Johnson Misery and shame are nearly allied.
misery till
Thomas Shepard I know it is the misery of men; they can make nothing of this till they feel it.
misery optimistic realized
John C. Reilly For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.
misery miserable-people miserable
Arthur Golden We can never flee the misery that is within us.
misery
Brooke Shields You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.
misery resentment vengeance
Dalai Lama Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
misery extremes invites
Dodie Smith extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.