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— Thomas Jefferson"Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better."
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...Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. - where grateful happiness is found through understanding that whatever your situation is, it could always be worse, but isn't... and the thought that things could always be better and the bitter unhappiness this creates is discarded!
— Frithjof Schuon
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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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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