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| Introduction | |
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| Happiness & The Enjoyment of Living "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." | |
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| The secret of happiness is something to do | |
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| True happiness is to rest satisfied with what we have | |
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| To find happiness we must seek for it in a focus outside ourselves | |
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| Happiness cannot be bought; indeed, money has very little to do with it | |
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| How essential it is...to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls | |
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| Enjoy yourself-it is later than you think | |
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| Faith & Inner Calm "Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible." | |
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| I could feel no doubt of man's oneness with the universe... It was a feeling that transcended reason; that went to the heart of a man's despair and found it groundless | |
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| I triumph still, if Thou abide with me | |
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| Lead, kindly Light... The night is dark, and I am far from home | |
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| So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! | |
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| My faith in God is complete, so I am unafraid | |
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| I hope to see my Pilot face to face when I have crossed the bar | |
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| The journey is done... O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again | |
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| Humbly we prayed for food... Within an hour a sea gull came and landed on my head | |
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| Without Divine assistance I cannot succeed; with it I cannot fail | |
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| Courage & The Conquest of Fear "The things courage can do!" | |
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| This, too, shall pass away | |
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| What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life? | |
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| I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul | |
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| It is not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts | |
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| I would no longer resist and struggle; I would accept the unavoidable... I began to let go, to relax... The great reward was in the mind... I felt it did not much matter what happened to my body. Nothing could touch me | |
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| There is nothing to fear about most cases of cancer-nothing except delay! | |
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| Good-bye... I am not at all afraid of the end | |
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| So live that when thy summons comes...thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night...but sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust | |
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| I wish to take from every grave its fear... The dead do not suffer... Death is only perfect rest | |
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| Facing and accepting a loss is the first step of managing bereavement. Only the life which deliberately picks up and starts over again is victorious | |
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| Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait | |
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| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself | |
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| Confidence & Achievement "Men were born to succeed, not to fail." | |
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| Blessed is he who has found his work | |
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| "What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!" | |
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| You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours-the most precious of possessions | |
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| The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this victory can never know defeat | |
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| We must do the best we can with what we have | |
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| There is always another chance... This thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down | |
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| Self-Discipline & The Development of Character "A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune." | |
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| Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul | |
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| This above all: to thine own self be true | |
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| The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves... All that a man achieves or fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts | |
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| My life is for itself and not for a spectacle... What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think | |
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| I will lead my life and practice my art in uprightness and honor | |
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| Personality & Relationship to Others: "The art of pleasing requires only the desire." | |
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| Faith, hope and love, these three-and the greatest of these is love | |
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| Let me not neglect any kindness, for I shall not pass this way again | |
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| What you do not wish done to yourself, do not do to others | |
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| You who are letting your friend's heart ache for a word of appreciation or sympathy...the time is short! | |
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| With malice toward none, with charity for all... | |
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| Let me live by the side of the road And be a friend to man | |
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| Peace of Heart and Mind "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." | |
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| Live for the day only, and for the day's work... The chief worries of life arise from the foolish habit of looking before and after | |
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| You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one... The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time | |
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| The best medicine is to stop thinking about yourself, and start thinking about other people | |
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| I rave no more 'gainst Time or Fate, For, lo! my own shall come to me | |
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| Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify! | |
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| Love & Family Life: "To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." | |
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| How do I love thee? Let me count the ways... | |
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| Gladly I surrender myself to love and parentage | |
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| At the end only two things really matter to a man...the affection and understanding of his family | |
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| 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home | |
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| Contentment in Later Years "It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young" | |
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| Old age is the consummation of life, just as of a play | |
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| The shadows of evening lengthen about me, but morning is in my heart | |
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| Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be | |
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| Hope for the Future "We are just at the beginning of progress in every field of human endeavor" | |
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| The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward | |
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| The age in which we live can become one of the blessed periods in all history | |
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| Our thinking in the future must be worldwide | |
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| Beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth, I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace | |
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| The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith | |
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| Index | |