"To be content with little is..." - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

🌾 Simplicity

“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

More stuff won't make you happier — if anything, it makes contentment harder. Learning to love a smaller, simpler life is a skill worth building, one day at a time.

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