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A SMALL SECRET

FOR A GREAT HAPPINESS 

Submitted by Eva of Germany

Take care of your troubles

and your neighbor's problems.

Take to heart the anxieties

and needs of those who are near you.

 

Give others the light you do not have,

the force you do not possess,

the hope you feel vacillating in you,

the confidence you are lacking.

Enlighten them from your darkness.

Enrich them with your poverty.

 

Give a smile

when you feel like crying.

Produce serenity

from the storm within you.

"Here, I give you what I have not".

This is your paradox.

 

You will realize that joy

will gradually enter you,

pervade your essence,

and become truly yours

in as much as

you have given it to others.

 

ALESSANDRO MANZONI
AM
Troubles certainly often arise from occasion afforded by ourselves; but the most cautious and blameless conduct cannot secure us from them; and, when they come confidence in God alleviates them.
Alessandro Manzoni
 
1785–1873, Italian novelist and poet.… It was in 1821–27, under the influence of Sir Walter Scott, that Manzoni produced his most famous work, I promessi sposi (tr. The Betrothed, 1827), a novel of 16th-century Milan that reveals a detailed understanding of Italian life and remains one of Italy’s most enduring novels. By 1875, 118 editions had appeared, and the work was widely translated.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.
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