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61 " Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. "
62 " 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. "
63 " Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! "
64 " I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. "
65 " Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. "
66 " If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort. "
67 " The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose. "
68 " In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. "
