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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

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.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.