

Weep and you weep alone for the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough on its own. To learn for what, please resume climbing. It is in falling short of your own goals that you will surpass those who exceed theirs.

Find fault with yourself and not with others. Harm comes to those who know only victory and do not know defeat. Patience is the foundation of eternal peace.I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,Īnd with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste. To the sessions of sweet silent thought.If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them.Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'.Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.You have no rose without a thorn a diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower.

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interlude between two moments of joy.To survive is to find meaning in the suffering. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there, I did not die.

Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now.
