Contentment...

[fajrdrako]

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. - Charles Caleb Colton, 1780 - 1832

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[dewline.livejournal.com]

Too true.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What I love about this quote is: it isn't condemning Alexander, particularly, any more than it's praising Diogenes. It's just pointing out (in true yoga fashion!) that our world is what we make it.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

There are also certain ironies in the quote; Alexander's "world," for example, included parts of Europe and Asia (but *not* all of either) and left out huge areas such as China and the Americas.

ObComicRef: I first learned about Diogenes the Cynic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope) from the Tintin book The Crab with the Golden Claws (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crab_with_the_Golden_Claws), where Tintin realizes the gangsters he is trying to find have hidden themselves in a cellar full of wine barrels. The second irony here is that Diogenes is described as living in a barrel, not a tub. It seems that Herge was wrong on that point or stretched it to fit his narrative.

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[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

You may want to read this post (http://community.livejournal.com/octranspo/473630.html) related to the current transit strike.