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Quotes About Contentedness

Such contentedness and change of view in regard to every kind of life does the infusion of reason bring about. When Alexander heard from Anaxarchus of the infinite number of worlds, he wept, and when his friends asked him what was the matter, he replied, "Is it not a matter for tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, I have not conquered one?
~ Plutarch
In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
~ Gautama Buddha
A stretch of time when I was rewarded with so many mystic moments, a chunk of red chalk, a chestnut, a rusted piece of scrap metal, a nail, a flat stone shaped like an ancient tablet. Although suggesting little of the magnificent work I had seen, these objects helped inspire my newfound contentedness. I placed them with the same care as a police detective into a clean plastic bag. Evidence of an awareness of the relative value of insignificant things.
~ Patti Smith