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— Ralph Waldo Emerson"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful."
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We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
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