I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.
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Steady as a clock busy as a bee and cheerful as a cricket.
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
To make the fastest progress,Be an absolutely cheerfulHero-warriorAnd take both victory and failureAs parallel experience riversLeading to the sea Of progress-delight.
Don__ fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.
Suffering becomes beautiful whenever a person bears great calamities with cheerfulness.
In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.