I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
04401 – Most of Our Happiness or Misery Depends on . . .
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I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Everybody needs to dream the dream of a better life, a better world. But there is such a thing as failing to accept life as it is to the point that we miss what is good about it, too. "The greatest part of our happiness," Martha Washington wrote, "depends on our...