SUCCESS IS THIS:
To laugh often and to love much,
To win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children.
To earn the approbation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of friends,
To appreciate beauty,
To find the best in everything,
To give one’s self,
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition,
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and to have sung with exaltation,
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson