Jane Austen on content
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
Jane AustenJane Austen Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
Jane AustenJane Austen A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane AustenJane Austen Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane AustenJane Austen How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
Jane AustenJane Austen The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
Jane AustenJane Austen Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane AustenJane Austen The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
Jane AustenJane Austen It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane AustenJane Austen I was quiet but I was not blind.
Jane AustenJane Austen Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
Jane AustenJane Austen Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane AustenJane Austen She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
Jane AustenJane Austen To love is to burn, to be on fire.
Jane AustenJane Austen Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
Jane AustenJane Austen The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl JungCarl Jung He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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