Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.