Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I'd learned my lesson.