The Ingredients of Lasting Happiness

are:
-simple taste
-a certain degree of courage
-self denial, to a point
-love of work
-a clear conscience
-trust in God
-and contentment which is the realization of how much we already have..

PASSING TIME

by Maya Angelou

Your skin like
dawn

Mine like musk
One paints the
beginning

of a certain end.
The other,

the end of a sure beginning.