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Here's something I sometimes tell people:

Contentment comes when "the way you want it" and "the way it is" overlap enough -- but sometimes in life, you can really only change one of those.

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"So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?" - Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, 1992 - https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/11