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Stillness Is The Key (Audiobook) Ryan Holiday

Notus & Friends

CHAPTER

The Importance of Contentment

The Western philosophers wrestled with the balance between getting more and being satisfied. Marco Rubio was pacing the halls of his home making fundraising calls for his surprise Senate bid when his three year old son snuck out the back door and fell into the pool. Even after this near tragedy he returned almost immediately to work his ambition like Lincoln's a little engine that knew no rest only with distance could Rubio begin to see what important things we miss when we give ourselves over to it entirely. Solving your problem of poverty is an achievable goal and can be fixed by earning and saving money No one accomplishments money fame respect piles and piles of them will never make a person feel content. They are not made of anything

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