I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we’re all God’s children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr…. to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character…is simply doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world— one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.

There’s always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It’s how you lend some authority to what you write – you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

On the other hand, the great helpless mass of the population, the people of the abyss, was sinking into a brutish apathy of content with misery

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.

That is God’s call to us – simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

Crack cocaine is the contemporary beaver, an international fad that has radically altered the economics of the poorest, marginal people, indigenous America. The gangs are the tribes of the New World

In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.

I’m really busy, but I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything.

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? ‘Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.’ I think of that. No big deal. I’ve reached a stage in my life where I am content.

A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, ‘I’m going to play the Steam store now.’

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, “He who is content.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

I am very content with what god has given me. I never feel jealous or insecure. I think everyone should succeed.

Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

We always focus on the quality of music because as long as the content is good, then the interest will be there.

You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Let the spiritual grow up through the common. Live content with small means; seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. Be worthy, not respectable, wealthy, not rich; study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common

I am working in Paris . I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.

He that’s content, has enough; he that complains, has too much.

The soul of our country needs to be awakened… When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Your existence is evidence that this generation needs something that your life contains

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.