We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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