The Joys Of Living, By Orison Swett Marden, published in 1913.

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The Joys Of Living (1913)

Book Facts... The Joys Of Living

Author:	Orison Swett Marden
Publisher:	Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
Year Published:	1913
Number of Pages:	403
Number of Chapters:	Twenty-Six
Sub-Title:	None

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Selected Quote From: The Joys Of Living

"A ringing call for a joyful life is just what this old world needs to hear and to heed. A saner, wiser, more helpful book than this we have rarely read� In every sense well worth the while." - The Examiner
"The book makes wholesome reading. One lays it down with a resolve to find more happiness in his life and a determination to live more in the present."
- Springfield Republican

"The author has been doing uniformly good work, work that has elicited warmest commendations from leading men of the country. �The Joys of Living� is one of Dr. Marden�s best books."
- Chicago Standard

The Joys Of Living
Chapter Titles Include:

1. Living Today � in The Here And Now
2. A Professional At Living
3. The Hunt For Happiness
4. Training The Young Toward Sunshine
5. Riches And Happiness
6. Enjoying Without Owning
7. The Sin Of Tired Nerves
8. Think Health And Joy
9. The Joys Of Imagination
10. Taking Life Too Seriously
11. Happiness Can Be Cultivated
12. The Joys Of Friendship
13. The Tragedy Of Postponed Enjoyment
14. Intellectual And Esthetic Joys
15. �Reading Maketh A Full Man�
16. The Alchemy Of A Cheerful Mind
17. The Twin Enemies Of Happiness � Fear And Worry
18. The Strain To Keep Up Appearances Kills Happiness
19. Contentment, The Secret Of Happiness
20. Home Joy Killers
21. The Power Of The Home Joy
22. The Dangers Of Thwarted Ambition
23. An Idle Life An Unhappy Life
24. Joy In Our Work
25. Turning The Water Of Life Into Wine
26. Longevity And Happiness

Excerpt From the Self-Help Classic... The Joys Of Living

"LIVING TODAY IN THE HERE AND NOW � If an inhabitant of some other planet were to visit America, he would probably think that our people were all en route for something beyond, some other destination, and that where they happen to be living is merely a way station where they unpack only such of their luggage as they need for a temporary stay.

The visitor would find very few people actually living in the here and the now. He would find that most people�s gaze is fixed upon something beyond, something to come. They are not really settled today, do not really live in the now, but they are sure they will live tomorrow or next year when business is better, their fortune greater, when they move into their new house, get their new furnishings, their new automobile, get rid of things that now annoy, and have everything around them to make them comfortable.

Then, they will be happy. But they are not really enjoying themselves today.

Our eyes are so focused upon the future, upon some goal in the beyond, that we do not see the beauties and the glories all about us. Our eyes are not focused for the things near us, but those far away. We get so accustomed to living in our imagination an anticipation that we lose much of our power of enjoying the hear and the now.

We are living for tomorrow, and yet �when tomorrow comes, it will still be tomorrow!�

We are like children chasing a rainbow. If we could only reach it, what delight! We spend our lives trading in �futures�, building air-castles. We never believe that we have yet reached the years of our finest living, but we always feel sure that that ideal time of life is coming.

The great majority of people think that the proper thing to do is to live almost anywhere except right here and now. Many people dwell on the past with its rich but lost opportunities, its splendid chances which they have let slip; and while they are doing this, they waste the precious present which seems of little account to them today, but which tomorrow will begin to take on a new value in their estimation."

- Author, Orison Swett Marden
The Joys Of Living

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