The highest place in life

　 You are at the top when you truly understand that failure is only temporary and not your whole life; that yesterday ended last night and tomorrow is a new beginning.

　　When you rejoice in your past, focus on your present, and are optimistic about your future, you are at the top of the heap.

　　That you stand on the highest ground when you understand that success will not make you and failure will not break you.

　　when your heart is filled with faith, hope and love, and dispels anger, greed, envy and hatred, you stand at the highest place.

　　That you stand on the highest ground when you have matured enough to restrain the moment and focus on your responsibilities rather than your rights.

　　That you stand at the top when you know that not standing up for what is right means falling prey to evil.

　　That you stand at the top when you trust yourself with confidence, approach life with equanimity, and associate kindly with your fellow man.

　　when you become friends with your opponents and gain the love and respect of your closest relatives, you stand on the highest ground.

　　when you understand that others can bring you joy, but that true happiness comes from the joy of helping others, you stand at the top.

　　That you stand at the top when you treat complaints with pleasure, rudeness with humility, and poverty with generosity.

　　That you stand at the top when you give love to the unlovely, hope to the disappointed, friendship to the lonely, and encouragement to the discouraged.

　　You stand at the highest when you look backward with forgiveness, forward with hope, downward with compassion, and upward with gratitude.