Success

[Pringle]

To have laughed often and loved much.
To win the repect of intelligent persons
and the affection of children.
To earn the approbation of honest critics
and to endure the betrayal of false friends.
To appreciate beauty.
To find best in others.
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 sung with exultation.
To know that
even one life
has breathed easier
because
you have lived -
this is to have
succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson