Neither be cynical about love for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
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But let not this blind you to what virtue there is many persons strive for high ideals and everywhere life is full of heroism. Exercise caution in your business affairs for the world is full of trickery.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant they too have their story. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. (The Desiderata of Happiness) Desiderata Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still. Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am and keep ever burning before my vagrant steps the kindly light of hope. Let me not follow the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path. Forbid that I should judge others lest I condemn myself. Lift up my eyes from the earth, and let me not forget the uses of the stars. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as shall keep me friendly with myself. May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Spare me from bitterness and from the sharp passions of unguarded moments. May I still remember the bright hours that found me walking over the silent hills of my childhood, or dreaming on the margin of a quiet river, when a light glowed within me, and I promised my early God to have courage amid the tempests of the changing years. A Prayer Let me do my work each day and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.