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April 5 - April 12, 2018
As inconsistent as it may seem, you will learn more about how to succeed from the failures than you will from the so-called successes. They will teach you what not to do.
Learn this lesson, once and forever, that you will find happiness only by helping others to find it!
every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
teaching them how to organize and make practical use of facts.
the important question of how to use knowledge in the practical affairs of life.
Ideas are the beginning of all human achievement. Teach all students how to recognize practical ideas that may be of benefit in helping them acquire whatever they demand of life.
show them how to search for the seed of an equivalent advantage which comes with every defeat.
Teach children not to have opinions unless they are formed from facts or beliefs which may reasonably be accepted as facts. Teach children that cigarettes, liquor, narcotics, and overindulgence in sex destroy the power of will and lead to the habit of drifting. Do not forbid these evils—just explain them.
Teach children to face facts, whether they are pleasant or unpleasant,
law of compensation
Teach children there is no problem which does not have an appropriate solution and that the solution often may be found in the circumstance creating the problem.
Teach children that their only real limitations are those which they set up or permit others to establish in their own minds.
Teach children to be true to themselves at all times and, since they cannot please everybody,
No single quality adds more to one’s personality than the ability to speak with emotional feeling, force, and conviction,
Failure also forces people to learn many truths they would never discover without it.
The only permanent thing in the universes
is change.
Men who succeed in business do so entirely because of the way they relate themselves to their associates and to others outside of the business.
it is not only one’s deeds but also one’s very thoughts which determine the nature of all human relationships.
You will understand, too, that no individual is an entity unto himself, that completeness of mind can be attained only by harmony of purpose and deed between two or more minds.
Naturally the question arises as to what is a proper relationship between people? The answer is that the proper relationship is one that brings to all connected with it, or affected by it, some form of benefit.
What, then, is an improper relationship? A Any relationship between people which damages anyone or brings any form of misery or unhappiness to any of the individuals.
Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.
Failure is a blessing when it forces one to depend less upon material forces and more upon spiritual forces.
man has control over nothing and has no assurance of the permanent use of anything except his own power of thought.
Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought, which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.
there is the seed of an equivalent advantage in every adversity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson called the law of compensation?
Outstanding achievement is impossible without the friendly cooperation of others.
The ten most common motives, those which inspire most of one’s thought-action, are these: • The desire for sex expression and love • The desire for physical food • The desire for spiritual, mental, and physical self-expression • The desire for perpetuation of life after death • The desire for power over others • The desire for material wealth • The desire for knowledge • The desire to imitate others • The desire to excel others • The seven basic fears
all negative thoughts are inspired by one’s neglect or failure to adapt oneself harmoniously to nature’s laws.
created to receive, organize, specialize, and express the power of thought. When the individual does not use the brain for the expression of positive, creative thoughts, nature fills the vacuum by forcing the brain to act upon negative thoughts.
People are not born with wisdom, but they are born with the capacity to think, and they may, through the lapse of time, think their way into wisdom.
Wisdom comes only through the lapse of time.
Q Is it safe for all people to have knowledge? A It
is never safe for anyone to have extensive knowledge without wisdom.
