Happiness depends on our dispositions

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances."

Martha Washington

What have Americans to be thankful for?

"What have Americans to be thankful for? More than any other people on the earth, we enjoy complete religious freedom, political freedom, social freedom. Our liberties are sacredly safeguarded by the Constitution of the United States, 'the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.' Yes, we Americans of today have been bequeathed a noble heritage. Let us pray that we may hand it down unsullied to our children and theirs."

B.C. Forbes in 1953

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mentioned in the article Made in the USA: Spoiled brats by Craig Smith in WorldNetDaily
Posted: November 20, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
retrieved 6/18/2007 from http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53028

Einstein on miracles

"There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle."

Albert Einstein

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This was a signature line in the middle of an email that had been forwarded many times. I don't even know the person who had it as their signature, but Einstein can even bind strangers.

BTW, I choose to live my life in the latter of the two ways.