I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness

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. – Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. – Paulo Coelho

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