One of the best reads. So well written and so many good anecdotes. Few good ones: One must be compassionate in assessing the reasons. Perhaps life just present

One of the best reads. So well written and so many good anecdotes. Few good ones: One must be compassionate in assessing the reasons. Perhaps life just presented them with tougher problems than they could solve. It happens. Or maybe they just ran so hard for so long that somewhere along the line they forgot what it was they were running for. Life is hard. Just to keep on keeping on is sometimes an act of courage. A famous French writer said "There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives." Don't be too hard on yourself. Look ahead. Someone said that "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." And above all don't imagine that the story is over. Life has a lot of chapters. You don't need to run down like an unwound clock. And if your clock is unwound, you can wind it up again. You can stay alive in every sense of the word until you fail physically. The more I see of human lives, the more I believe the business of growing up is much longer drawn out than we pretend. You find that the world loves talent, but pays off on character. You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing. You finally grasp what S. N. Behrman meant when he said "At the end of every road you meet yourself." 'Did you collaborate in your own de feat?" A lot of people do. Learn not to. You never get the impression that a cow is about to have a nervous breakdown. Or is puzzling about the meaning of life. There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. Life is tumultuous -- an endless losing and regaining of balance, a continuous struggle, never an assured victory. Someone said "It's all right to be a late bloomer if you don't miss the flower show."