When you go out in the morning,

to begin the work of the day

Don’t neglect the little chances

you will find on your way;

For in lifting another’s burden,

and speaking a word of cheer,

You will find your own cares

lighter and easier to bear.

Be Optimistic

If we noticed little pleasures

as we noticed little pains —

If we quite forgot our losses and remembered all our gains,

If we looked for people’s virtues, and their faults

refused to see,

What a comfortable, happy, cheerful place this world would be.

 —Coral MacFarlaine