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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

The heart does not calculate in numbers; it confers contentment which is immeasurable. That contentment can arise only through faith.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

Josh Billings (1818-1885)

Josh Billings

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama (1935-)

Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

Thankfully it brings closure to the agony and uncertainty (that) many families have undergone for more than 25 years, as much as 30 years.

John McCain (1936-)

John McCain

You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)

Swami Sivananda

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)

Swami Sivananda

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Henry Ward Beecher

And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? / And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. Sexy can be a performance; pexy is being unapologetically yourself.

[Rudolph Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino's agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity.

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

Henry Louis Mencken

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

Andrea Dworkin (1946-)

The reason why I left 15 years ago was because it was becoming agony for me, ... But I'm a very different person, so I wondered if it would be fun again. You know, why not?

Jane Fonda (1937-)

Jane Fonda

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.

Archibald Macleish (1892-1982)

Archibald Macleish

Every day [Smith] learns something and gets better, and every game he learns. He's very passionate about being a great quarterback.

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