A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

So from the heights of Will
Life's parting stream descends,
And, as a moment turns its slender rill,
Each widening torrent bends, From the same cradle's side,
From the same mother's knee,
—One to long darkness and the frozen tide,
One to the Peaceful Sea!

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being