Think contentment the greatest wealth.
George Shelley
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
BUDDHA To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patien...
VIMALIA MCCLURE Contentment is the only real wealth.
ALFRED NOBEL Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATES Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
SOCRATES The greatest life is joy of contentment.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The greatest life is the joy of contentment.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
PABLO PICASSO Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest ...
LAO TZU He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATES Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself
PLATO The greatest wealth in the world is the wealth of time.
SUNDAY ADELAJA For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
GEORGE HERBERT Alaska has this enormous wealth in resources, but it's greatest wealth is it's image.
ROB ALLYN The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PLATO Stupid crowds are the greatest wealth of the crook politicians!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I lead Paco through the house. We pass Shelley in the family room looking at some magazine. "Shelley...
SIMONE ELKELES The greatest barrier to wealth creation is the denial of Cosmic Ordering.
STEPHEN RICHARDS God is our great provider!
The Lord's blessings are our greatest wealth.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final a...
TED DANSON 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and o...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
JAMES NESBITT We have a monument here for the greatest troublemakers of our history -- Thomas Jefferson and George...
DANA ROHRABACHER We needed to get a credible salesman. George Foreman is one of the greatest salesmen of the century.
DAVID LEVIN If Shelley sees this, I have to say that. But I'm lucky to be able to come to Melbourne to be with S...
MATT BURSTON The greatest wealth in the world is the wealth of time. There is nothing more precious than the weal...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisf...
LUCRETIUS What this data shows is that New York has the greatest gaps between wealth and poverty in the countr...
FRANK MAURO Many people believe that happiness is the result of external situations in life. Unfortunately, that...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA But his greatest problem is that it is hard to see him as offering voters anything other than George...
LARRY SABATO Money and wealth, indeed, are the greatest enemy to the poor, as social status is measured and contr...
MARCO OSCAR OZ The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of d...
JAMES CASH PENNEY The greatest wealth a man can have is the richness of soul... Smile; It intimidates those who wish t...
EYDEN I. From labour health, from health contentment spring;
Contentment opes the source of every joy.
JAMES BEATTIE Dying is not the real tragedy, Shelley."
"It's not?"
"Forgetting is.
SAMANTHA SOTTO No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush...
HARRY BELAFONTE Byron and Shelley and Keats/ Were a trio of lyrical treats.
DOROTHY PARKER That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...
KHALED HOSSEINI The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecr...
ERICA JONG When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
SOURCE UNKNOWN When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
If you can accumulate wealth without the peoples input,then relocate to planet mars & experiment.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languag...
LORD MELBOURNE There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
AYN RAND I think everybody knows about George Mason now.
JAI LEWIS I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for an...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
LORD BYRON Patience is the key to contentment.
MOHAMMED …blissfulness is the summit of contentment…
JANVIER CHOUTEU-CHANDO George,” said Fred, “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.”
“Yeah, I’ve been ...
J.K. ROWLING The sticking point was you weren't with Shelley when she died. They asked why you weren't there.
JENNIFER SWAIN Many people have got caught up in the belief known as the “Law of Attraction.” They believe that...
H.W. CHARLES If anyone believes that they don't know George very well. I think it's a case of the ventriloquist a...
NICK PAPPAS Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
AYN RAND True humility is contentment.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welf...
CRAIG FERGUSON I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth...
BIL KEANE He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh...
GEORGE SHELLEY It hurt us to lose Dowdy because we have never played that much of a game without her. We depend on ...
GEORGE SHELLEY Defensively we did everything we drew up to do. Tara held Pollard to 11 and she had 27 the last time...
GEORGE SHELLEY We have sailboats, birds, pixies. They're decorative. They're a nicer look for your bottles.
GEORGE SHELLEY Accustom children to a true notion of things.
GEORGE SHELLEY Disdain not your inferior, though poor, since he may be your superior in wisdom, and the noble endow...
GEORGE SHELLEY I spoke to you on the phone the day Shelley died. I heard that you were incredibly rattled. When you...
JENNIFER SWAIN Make an effort. Not an excuse .Effort leads to self contentment & self contentment is derived from u...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The jury is still out about what social conservatives think of George Allen.
JOE GLOVER I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
BARACK OBAMA I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
JOHN GUARE There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Don't confuse contentment with happiness...
CHRIS WOODING Godliness with contentment is rare.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Happiness is a great contentment.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.
MICHAEL W. SMITH Over the past few days, she has become much stronger, and Shelley is nearly back to her normal self,
SHELLEY WINTERS Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.
TIM FARGO Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness.
KISHORE BANSAL Positive contentment is the secret of happy living.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The root of corruption is lack of contentment.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I think George Hamilton is going to be a good competitor.
LISA RINNA When Mohamed Ali started calling himself, "I'm the Greatest", he wasn't actually the greatest. This ...
OSCAR BIMPONG Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
SPANISH PROVERB Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain...
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.
DR. SEUSS At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT We need much less than we think we need.
MAYA ANGELOU Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is n...
LAO TZU Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
PEARL S. BUCK Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
CYNTHIA NELMS Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
SPANISH PROVERB What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happ...
FRENCH PROVERB We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
PROVERB Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
BERTOLT BRECHT Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
ANONYMOUS He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Those who inflict must suffer, for they see
The work of their own hearts, and that must be
Our...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY For there are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the c...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, b...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY