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Success is...


...to laugh often and love much;

...to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children;

...to earn the approbation of honest critics;

...to appreciate beauty;

...to give of 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 sung with exultation;

...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived;

that is to have succeeded.


(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), amerikanischer Philosoph und Dichter.