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The best formula of life is: Try, try by all means to achieve the very best, but when you feel that you can only get the second best then accept it gracefully.

An individual who is financially or culturally disadvantaged should not feel irrevocably the prisoner of his circumstances. He must banish despair, for there is no end to possibilities in this world. It is simply a question of being determined to make the best use of them.

People who ultimately succeed are those who are undaunted by disadvantageous circumstances, who waste no time in lamenting over them and who give their attention instead to overcoming whatever difficulties they are faced with.

If there is to be harmony within a community, the ill attributes of its members must be tolerated, while their good elements appreciated. If we want to pluck “flowers,” we have to also bear the “thorns” that come with them.