Martha Washington

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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.
- Martha Washington
Collection: Happiness
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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.
- Martha Washington
Collection: Happiness
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Collection: Happiness
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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.
- Martha Washington
Collection: Happiness
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I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
- Martha Washington
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We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
- Martha Washington
Collection: Seeds
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I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.
- Martha Washington
Collection: Happiness
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Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
- Martha Washington
Collection: Inspirational
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I am only fond of what comes from the heart.
- Martha Washington
Collection: Heart
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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.
- Martha Washington
Collection: Happiness
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I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.
- Martha Washington
Collection: Self