Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
Happy families are all alike.
Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. Coalition, a project of the Josephson Institute of Ethics, a nonpartisan, nonsectarian organization.