Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You judge yourself by what your capable of doing, while others judge you by what you have already done

Let us labor for an inward stillness — An inward stillness and an inward healing.
That perfect silence where the lips and heart
Are still, and we no longer entertain
Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions,
But God alone speaks to us and we wait
In singleness of heart that we may know
His will, and in the silence of our spirits,
That we may do His will and do that only

The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.