Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.

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Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.