True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

  • -- Charles Caleb Colton 英国作家科尔顿

真正的满足并不取决于我们拥有什么;浴缸对提奥奇尼斯来说够大了,但对亚历山大来说世界太小了。

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Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

正如人们一再证明的那样,幸福、满足、健康和灵魂的成长,都取决于一个简单的问题,取决于灵魂的某个单一的转向。

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

知足是人生在世最大的幸事。