The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Children have to be educated but they have also to be left to educate...
On a soap happiness never lasts for very long!
The older I get the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.