Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
You know, in the Middle Ages, in England, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an "unfortunate" -- literally, somebody who had not been blessed by fortune, an unfortunate.
The facts are always less than what really happened.
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.