An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

An election win, a rent rise, a sick relative getting better: good news lifts you, and you expect good days to follow. Don’t count on it. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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