Loss and Gain

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
_Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sincere Emotion

"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary." Mark Twain

No One Idolized

"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized." _Albert Einstein

Courage

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

To be Loved for What One is

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
_Johann Wolfgang von Goethe