"Don't confuse contentment with happiness..."

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Source : Chris Wooding (2014). “Poison”, p.10, Scholastic UK

Chris Wooding

#Contentment Quotes

“You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
“I love that blurry place where lifeâ€™s transitions are made without you even knowing it.”
“"Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings."”
“Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.”
“Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good. For true listeners know that if you are bad-tempered it does not mean that you are always so. They don't love you just when you are nice; they love all of you.”
“Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesnâ€™t marry an idiot.”
“A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.”
“If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.”

Source : "United States v. United Mine Workers, 330 U.S. 258". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 6, 1947.

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