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The house projects became endless and my self-contentment diminished with each new décor I envisioned.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
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The house projects became endless and my self-contentment diminished with each new décor I envisioned.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
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The house projects became endless and my self-contentment diminished with each new décor I envisioned.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
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The Dalai Lama's message addressed the importance of inner peace and self-contentment as a path to lasting world peace.
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The Dalai Lama's message addressed the importance of inner peace and self-contentment as a path to lasting world peace.
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Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
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Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
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Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
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Dipping my finger in the blood of my heart, I would smear upon their brows the brands of my reproaches, and they, paupers in spirit, miserable in their self-contentment, they would suffer.
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It is a commonplace fact that there is no one so low in the world that he cannot find some one viler than himself, and consequently puff with pride and self-contentment.
The Kreutzer Sonata 2003
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