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March 13 - March 13, 2022
The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.
until I was approaching forty—my own week consisted of seven days.
with one day in seven in which I follow no programme and make no effort save what the caprice of the moment dictates, I appreciate intensely the moral value of a weekly rest.
In cases of abounding youth and exceptional energy and desire for effort I should say unhesitatingly: Keep going, day in, day out.
half an hour at least on six mornings a week, and one hour and a half on three evenings a week. Total, seven hours and a half a week.
seven hours and a half out of a hundred and sixty-eight!
My contention is that the full use of those seven-and-a-half hours will quicken the whole life of the week, add zest to it, and increase the interest which you feel in even the most banal occupations.
To do something else means a change of habits. And habits are the very dickens to change!
If you imagine that you will be able to devote seven hours and a half a week to serious, continuous effort, and still live your old life, you are mistaken. I repeat that some sacrifice, and an immense deal of volition, will be necessary.
unostentatiously.
When you have conscientiously given seven hours and a half a week to the cultivation of your vitality for three months—then you may begin to sing louder and tell yourself what wondrous things you are capable of doing.
allow much more than an hour and a half in which to do the work of an hour and a half.
give yourself, say, from 9 to 11.30 for your task of ninety minutes.
"One can't help one's thoughts." But one can.
People complain of the lack of power to concentrate,
You look after your body, inside and out;
"What? I am to cultivate my mind in the street, on the platform, in the train, and in the crowded street again?" Precisely. Nothing simpler! No tools required! Not even a book. Nevertheless, the affair is not easy.
who is to know that you are engaged in the most important of daily acts? What asinine boor can laugh at you?
Try it. Get your mind in hand. And see how the process cures half the evils of life—especially worry, that miserable, avoidable, shameful disease—worry!
It is the study of one's self. Man, know thyself.
sagacious
We do not reflect. I mean that we do not reflect upon genuinely important things; upon the problem of our happiness, upon the main direction in which we are going, upon what life is giving to us,
But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason
a life in which conduct does not fairly well accord with principles is a silly life; and that conduct can only be made to accord with principles by means of daily examination, reflection, and resolution.
the less we reflect, the less reasonable we shall be.
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The solitude of the evening journey home appears to me to be suitable for it. A reflective mood
if you desire to understand the deeper depths of bridge or of boat-sailing you would not be deterred by your lack of interest in literature from reading the best books on bridge or boat-sailing.
Meredith,
Mr. Stephen Phillips
"Lohengrin"
the old Covent Garden days!).
You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.
"The Maiden's Prayer"
Mr. Clermont Witt's "How to Look at Pictures,"
the thief of the watch became a thief from causes of heredity and environment
Rents went up in Shepherd's Bush. It was painful and shocking that rents should go up in Shepherd's Bush.
