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What Is Success?
What is success?
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critiques
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by
a healthy child, a garden patch,
or a redeemed social connection;
To know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson