A Guide to a Happy Life
No one will ever get out of this world alive. Resolve therefore
to maintain a reasonable sense of values.
Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major
source of wealth; without it, happiness is almost impossible.
Resolve to be cheerful and helpful. People will repay
you in kind.
Avoid angry, abrasive persons. They are generally vengeful.
Avoid zealots. They are usually humorless.
Resolve to listen more and talk less. No one ever learns
anything by talking.
Be chary of giving advice. Wise men don't need it, and
fools won't heed it.
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with
the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the
wrong. Some time in life, you will have been all of these.
Do not equate money with success. There are many successful
moneymakers who are miserable failures as human beings. What counts most
about success is how a person achieves it.