Smiles and Tears

You will love this book whether you are a teacher or a learner, a philosopher or a poet, a politician or a merchant, happy or sad, young or old. You will live through it as you have lived, grow with it, and at times become one with it, as it lifts you away from the arena of rivalry, competition, envy, sarcasm, jealousy, and exhaustion. You will find yourself united with it, recalling your past, reflecting on your present, or anticipating your future. At times, it will embody chapters from your past, present, and future all at once, no matter your age, for emotions never perish, and the heart never truly grows old. It carries within it both despair and joy, pain and triumph, defeat and strength all of which guide you toward new paths and deeper knowledge. Above all, it awakens within you the sweet and bitter memories of love, life, death, smiles, and tears the shared inheritance of all humankind.