What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things, instead of using people and loving things. One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful; joy softens more hearts than tears. To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
