contentment

multitasking

duck

genie

chaos

self-love

life partner

enjoyment

fulfillment

self-care

anger

dissatisfaction

satisfaction

is capable of being be boiled down to nine requisites: Health, wealth, strength, grace, patience, charity, love, faith, and hope.

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well, and requires no less practice.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. (Alain de Botton)

is a kind of moral laziness, and if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness... if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers: rather, one should be either sad or joyful.

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

is distinguished from curiosity in that contentment wears slippers while curiosity wears boots.

Contentment wears slippers; curiosity wears boots.

 depends a little on position and a lot on disposition.

Character Contentment is something that depends a little on position and a lot on disposition.

is a matter of hoping for the best and making the best of what we get.

Contentment is a matter of hoping for the best and making the best of what we get.

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contentment