#contentment

He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 309 (1640 ed.)

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Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 309 (1640 ed.) - Herbert, George | WIST Quotations

He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.

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December 19, 2023 11:26pm

A quotation from Keller, Helen

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Helen Keller (1880-1968) American author and lecturer
“Our Duties to the Blind,” speech, Massachusetts Assoc. for Promoting the Interests of the Adult Blind, Boston (1904-01-05)

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"Our Duties to the Blind," speech, Massachusetts Assoc. for Promoting the Interests of the Adult Blind, Boston (1904-01-05) - Keller, Helen | WIST Quotations

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. Reprinted in Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision (1907).

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December 15, 2023 4:59pm

A quotation from Cicero

A person who lacks the means, within himself, to live a good and happy life will find any period of his existence wearisome. But rely for life’s blessings on your own resources, and you will not take a gloomy view of any of the inevitable consequences of nature’s laws. Everyone hopes to attain an advanced age; yet when it comes they all complain! So foolishly inconsistent and perverse can people be.

[Quibus enim nihil est in ipsis opis ad bene beateque vivendum, eis omnis aetas gravis est; qui autem omnia bona a se ipsi petunt, eis nihil malum potest videri quod naturae necessitas adferat. Quo in genere est in primis senectus, quam ut adipiscantur omnes optant, eandem accusant adeptam; tanta est stultitiae inconstantia atque perversitas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
De Senectute [Cato Maior; On Old Age], ch. 2 / sec. 4 (2.4) [Cato] (44 BC) [tr. Grant (1960, 1971 ed.)]

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De Senectute [Cato Maior; On Old Age], ch. 2 / sec. 4 (2.4) [Cato] (44 BC) [tr. Grant (1960, 1971 ed.)] - Cicero, Marcus Tullius | WIST Quotations

A person who lacks the means, within himself, to live a good and happy life will find any period of his existence wearisome. But rely for life's blessings on your own resources, and you will not take a gloomy view of any of the inevitable...

ramnath

June 3, 2023 4:40pm

"When pain, fear, anger, jealousy, confusion, etc is washed out of you (a cleans, a meditation, a bath in pure love, a surrender and state of acceptance - self induced or otherwise) - then you will see that you are whole, you can recognize your soul - you can realize who and what you are and how that fits into the greater hyper-dimensional reality. You can #experience true #bliss, #calmness, #peace, #contentment, #love => let's call that #paradise. Once you recognize that, you can have moments of bliss throughout the day, #anywhere, #anytime, if you just stop to #remember that it is there.

It seems obvious that most #human #beings are being kept from having this feeling, which is why paradise seems an unreachable concept, instead of a matter of course, as it could be."
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