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But do you ever let them? Do you ever show an eager, honest interest in them or their lives? That’s the sort of thing I mean.
And Benjamin Franklin summed it up very simply-"When you are good to others,” said Franklin, “you are best to yourself.”
“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.”
‘He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.’ ”
Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone’s face.
house are many mansions. ... I go to prepare a place for you ... that where I am, there ye may be also.”
Santayana’s
“Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.”
“Anyone who is truly religious does not develop a neurosis.”
“No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?”
“I came that ye might have life and have it more abundantly.”
The blackest moments we live through can only last a little time-and then comes the future. ...” On the average, someone commits
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; not yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly
'Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.’
“O God, I can no longer fight my battles alone. I need Your help, Your love. Forgive me for all my mistakes. Cleanse my heart of all evil. Show me the way to peace and quiet and health, and fill me with love even for my enemies.”
So when you are kicked and criticised, remember that it is often done because it gives the kicker a feeling of importance.
Remember that unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.
I realise now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.
“Never be bothered by what people say, as long as you know in your heart you are right.”
‘If you get your head above the crowd, you're going to be criticised. So get used to the idea.’
This system of self-analysis, continued year after year, has done more for me than any other one thing I have ever attempted.”
wasting time, stewing around over trifles, arguing and contradicting people.
“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.”
because fatigue often produces worry, or, at least, it makes you susceptible to worry.
So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired. Why is that so important? Because fatigue accumulates with astonishing rapidity. The United States Army
“Rest is not a matter of doing absolutely nothing. Rest is repair.”
rest before you get tired, and you will add one hour a day to your waking life.
Remember that a tense muscle is a working muscle. Ease up! Save energy for important duties.”
“Let go. Let go. Stop straining, stop frowning. Let go. Let go.” Repeat that over and over very slowly for a minute ....
Release from Nervous Tension, by Dr. David Harold Fink.
Maybe because by talking, we gain a little better insight into our troubles, get a better perspective. No one knows the whole answer. But all of us know that “spitting it out” or “getting it off our chests” bring almost instant relief.
“I want your advice. I have a problem, and I wish you would listen while I put it in words. You may be able to advise me. You may see angles to this thing that I can’t see myself. But even if you can’t, you will help me tremendously if you will just sit and listen while I talk it out.”
‘the sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature’s child, am in tune with the Universe.”
“Order is Heaven’s first law.”
“Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.”
is a well-known fact that your emotional attitude usually has far more to do with producing fatigue than has physical exertion. A few years ago, Joseph E. Barmack, Ph.D., published
if I do my work as if I really enjoy it, then I do enjoy it to some extent I also found I can work faster when I enjoy my work.
Why not imagine every time you ring a door-bell that you are an actor before the footlights and that there’s an audience out there looking at you. After all, what you are doing is just as funny as something on the stage. So why not put a lot of zest and enthusiasm into it?”
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” Those words are just as true today as they were eighteen centuries ago when Marcus Aurelius first wrote them in his book of Meditations: “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Keep reminding yourself that getting interested in your job will take your mind off your worries, and, in the long run, will probably bring promotion and increased pay.
Release from Nervous Tension,
“when I had trouble sleeping, I would practice rolling up my eyeballs into this position, and I found that in a few seconds I would begin to yawn and feel sleepy. It was an automatic reflex over which I had no control.”
Socony-Vacuum Oil Company. During the last twenty years he has interviewed more than seventy-five thousand people looking for jobs, and he has written a book entitled 6 Ways to Get a Job. I asked him: “What is the greatest mistake young people make today
but you do need ideas, experience, convictions, examples and excitement.
Remember that adults like to give advice to young men and women. The architect will probably enjoy the interview.
“More money is not the answer to most people’s financial worries. In fact, I have often seen it happen that an increase in income accomplished nothing but an increase in spending-and an increase in headaches. What causes most people to worry,” she said, “is not that they haven’t enough money, but that they don’t know how to spend the money they have!”
trust funds
Books have been written about how to make money in your spare time; inquire at your public library. There
Some of the most famous men in American history have had their financial troubles. Both Lincoln and Washington had to borrow money to make the trip to be inaugurated as President.
you insufficient,” said one of Rome’s greatest philosophers, Seneca, “then you will be miserable even if you possess the world.”
