Restlessness is the opposite of contentment. Greater is the number of the restless then the contented, and yet contentment is not impossible in any situation of life. Contentment is the virtue of being satisfied with whatever state or condition in which we find ourselves. It consists not so much in adding fuel to the fire as in taking some fire away; not in multiplying wealth, but in diminishing desires, in realizing that thirst can better be quenched out of a cup then out of a river. Velvet slippers do not cure gout, and a bed of gold does not ease sickness more readily than a mattress of straw. –Bishop Fulton J. Sheen ‘On Being Human’
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