Dickens

In every life, no matter how full or empty one's purse, there is tragedy.  It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is to not expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other people's store of it... What do you do when your family shrinks?... Cry your tears, but then, do the vital thing - build a new family, person by person.  Come to see that family need not be defined merely as those with whom you share your blood, but as those to whom you would give your blood.  -Nicholas Nickleby