'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxIt is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back
Ella Wheeler WilcoxLove gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxTalk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox