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“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
I will.
the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say: “To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d to-day.” Those words sound modern, don’t they? Yet they were written thirty years before Christ was born, by the Roman poet Horace.
We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
this is what we have to understand , we know several things but do we......
If you have a worry problem, apply the magic formula of Willis H Carrier by doing these three things: Ask yourself, “What is the worst that can possibly happen?” Prepare to accept it if you have to. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.
“the greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately.”
RELAXATION AND RECREATION The most relaxing recreating forces are a healthy religion, sleep, music, and laughter. Have faith in God—learn to sleep well— Love good music—see the funny side of life— And health and happiness will be yours.
“Businessmen who do not know how to fight worry die young.”
Do you love life? Do you want to live long and enjoy good health? Here is how you can do it. I am quoting Dr Alexis Carrel again: He said, “Those who keep the peace of their inner selves in the midst of the tumult of the modern city are immune from nervous diseases.”
“Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.”
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew): Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. RUDYARD KIPLING
“If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.”
Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts. Thomas Edison knew that. At the time of his death, he had two thousand five hundred notebooks filled with facts about the problems he was facing.
Writing down precisely what I am worrying about. Writing down what I can do about it. Deciding what to do. Starting immediately to carry out that decision.”
“When we stop fighting the inevitable,” said Elsie MacCormick in a Reader’s Digest article, “we release energy which enables us to create a richer life.”
This priceless prayer was written by Dr Reinhold Niebuhr. God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference.
There is only one way on God’s green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analyzing our past mistakes and profiting by them—and forgetting them.
knowledge isn’t power until it is applied;
“Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.”
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
“A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.”
we change our actions, we will automatically change our feelings.
Men do not attract what they want, but what they are… .
JUST FOR TODAY Just for today I will be happy. This assumes that what Abraham Lincoln said is true, that “most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Happiness is from within; it is not a matter of externals. Just for today I will try to adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my family, my business, and my luck as they come and fit myself to them.
Just for today I will take care of my body. I will exercise it, care for it, nourish it, not abuse it nor neglect it, so that it will be a perfect machine for my bidding. Just for today I will try to strengthen my mind. I will learn something useful. I will not be a mental loafer. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration. Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways; I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do, as William James suggests, just for exercise.
Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress as becomingly as possible, talk low, act courteously, be liberal with praise, criticise not at all, nor find fault with anything and not try to regulate nor improve anyone. Just for today I will try to live through this day only, not to tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do things for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep them up for a lifetime. Just for today I will have a program. I will write down what I expect to do every hour. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. It will eliminate two
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Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.
“We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.”
“You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.”
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me.
The wrong kind of fear is a sin—a sin against your health, a sin against the richer, fuller, happier, courageous life that Jesus advocated.
Remember that unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment.
When beating at a moderate rate of seventy pulses per minute, the heart is actually working only nine hours out of the twenty-four. In the aggregate its rest periods total a full fifteen hours per day.”
“I never stand up when I can sit down; and I never sit down when I can lie down.”
“Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.”
They were not exhausted because they were interested.
“Boredom is the only real cause of diminution of work.”
Walking ten blocks with a nagging wife or husband can be more fatiguing than walking ten miles with an adoring sweetheart.
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters… .”
