Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work ask him: 'Whose?'
On a soap happiness never lasts for very long!
I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true positive self esteem by praising everything they do.
