Vivien Greene quotes

Vivien Greene quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.”
-- Vivien Greene

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“Giving is the highest expression of our power.”
-- Vivien Greene

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“All that is real is seen with the heart.”
-- Vivien Greene

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“I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.”
“Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.”
“The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.”
“Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.”
“Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.”
“It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.”
“Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.”
“Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.”
“Now is the winter of our discontent.”
“The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.”

Source : William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”

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