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.
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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.
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.
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 find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.
Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
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