Steps to Success

Happy people enjoy what they have; they are content to keep the stars where God placed them, and derive pleasure from gazing on their celestial beauty. The unhappy stretch their eager hand to grab at the stars and grumble when they find them beyond their reach.
This does not mean that the happy have no desires. But there is this difference: they are people who are thankful for what they have, and then ask for more. The miserable, on the other hand, are ambitious and greedy. They take for granted what they get, and keep on snatch the meat from the mouth of the “other dog” thus losing his own, the unhappy person forgets his own possessions frets at the good fortune of others and covets the good things of every one else around. Such persons persist in the belief that the grass is always greener on the other side of their fence. Life to them is like a self-service cafeteria: You pick out what you like; then when you see what the other chap has got, you wish you had some of that too!