Martha Washington Quotations

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

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.

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

. . . steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket. . . .

I live a very dull life here . . . indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.