"When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'"

-- Dalai Lama

#Being Happy Quotes #Practice Quotes #Contentment Quotes

“Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.”
“Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.”
“I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.”
“As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.”
“Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.”

Source : John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.43, Madison & Adams
“Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.”
“F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.”
“I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of ones education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.”

Source : Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896). “Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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