Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?

kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.

Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.

Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?

Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good.

Troubles never come singly.