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I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crowne.”~Robert Greene (1558-92)
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. “Words are the small change of thought.” ~Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.- Plato
Right action is freedom From past and future also. For most of us, this is the aim Never here to be realised; Who are only undefeated Because we have gone on trying; We, content at the last If our temporal reversion nourish (Not too far from the yew-tree) The life of significant soil. ~ T. [...]
“Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they’re not tempted to think about any other role.” William Torrey Harris quotes
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, [...]
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich. Charles Wagner
“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
“Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.” ~Margaret [...]