Cheerfulness As a Life PowerThe soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this little book. Cheerfulness has a wonderful lubricating power. What is needed is a habit of cheerfulness, to enjoy every day as we go along; not to fret and stew all the week, and then expect to make up for it Sunday or on some holiday. This book leads the reader to look on the sunny side of things, and to take a little time every day to speak pleasant words. |
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... least - used lung cells , and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health , which results from the harmonious action of all the functions of the body . This delicate poise , which may be destroyed by a ...
... least - used lung cells , and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health , which results from the harmonious action of all the functions of the body . This delicate poise , which may be destroyed by a ...
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... indigestion , insomnia , and kindred ills , determined to throw off the gloom which was making life so heavy a burden to her , and established a rule that she would laugh at least three times a day , whether occasion 10 CHEERFULNESS .
... indigestion , insomnia , and kindred ills , determined to throw off the gloom which was making life so heavy a burden to her , and established a rule that she would laugh at least three times a day , whether occasion 10 CHEERFULNESS .
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Orison Swett Marden. laugh at least three times a day , whether occasion was pre- sented or not ; so she trained herself to laugh heartily at the least provocation , and would retire to her room and make merry by herself . She was soon ...
Orison Swett Marden. laugh at least three times a day , whether occasion was pre- sented or not ; so she trained herself to laugh heartily at the least provocation , and would retire to her room and make merry by herself . She was soon ...
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... least produce some whiffing , husky cachinnation , as if they were laughing through wool . Of none such comes good . " " The power to laugh , to cease work and begin to frolic and make merry in forgetfulness of all the conflict of life ...
... least produce some whiffing , husky cachinnation , as if they were laughing through wool . Of none such comes good . " " The power to laugh , to cease work and begin to frolic and make merry in forgetfulness of all the conflict of life ...
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Page 34 - He will do more in the same time, — he will do it better, — he will persevere longer.
Page 27 - God's medicine," says a wise writer ; " everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety — all the rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth." It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.
Page 63 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. I count this thing to be grandly true; That a noble deed is a step toward God — Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.
Page 63 - We rise by the things that are under our feet : By what we have mastered of good and gain; By the pride deposed and the passion slain, And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet.
Page 48 - I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man , and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity.
Page 54 - Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.
Page 15 - How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man! Some men wear an everlasting barren simper; in the smile of others lies a cold glitter as of ice: the fewest are able to laugh, what can be called laughing, but only sniff and titter and snigger from the throat outwards; or at best, produce some whiffling husky cachinnation, as if they were laughing through wool: of none such comes good.
Page 70 - Tis easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.
Page 57 - You are not putting your face to that broken pane to keep the wind from me, are you?" "Yes, sir, I am." "Why do you do that?" "God bless you, sir! I owe everything I have in the world to you.