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Thoughts About Cheerfulness (1910)
Book Facts... Thoughts About Cheerfulness
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Author: |
Orison
Swett Marden |
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Publisher: |
Thomas Y. Crowell |
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Year
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1910 |
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Number
of Pages: |
31 |
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Number
of Chapters: |
One |
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Sub-Title: |
None |
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Selected Quotes From: Thoughts About Cheerfulness
| "If everyone knew the power of laughter as a health tonic and life prolonger, the tinge of sadness which now clouds the American face would largely disapper."
"What is this world but as you take it? Thackeray calls the world a looking-glass that gives back the reflection of one’s own face. Frown at it, and it wil look sourly upon you; laugh at it, and it is a jolly companion."
"In a life of constant worrying, we are as much behind the times as if we were to go back to use the first steam engines that wasted ninety percent of the energy of the coal, instead of having an electric dynamo that utilizes ninety percent of the power."
- Orison Swett Marden |
Thoughts About Cheerfulness
Key Points Include:
1. Everybody Ought To Bathe In Laughter
2. Enemies Of Life Are Grief, Anxiety And Fear
3. Why Not Turn To Cheerfulness?
4. If Music Is In The Soul, You Will Hear It Everywhere
5. Cheerful Optimism Is Worth Everything
6. Good Humor Sells Most Goods
7. A Sunny Temper Ensure Good Health
8. Learn To Extract Happiness
9. We Can Least Spare Fun In This World
10. Our Emotions Sculpt Our Lives
Excerpt From the Self-Help Classic...
Thoughts About Cheerfulness
| "EVERY EMOTION tends to sculpture the body into beauty or into ugliness. Worrying, fretting, unbridled passions, petulance, discontent, every dishonest act, every falsehood, every feeling of envy, jealousy, fear, - each has its effect on the system, and acts like a poison to the mind and the body.
Professor James of Harvard, an expert in the mental sciences says, ‘Every small stroke of virtue or vice leaves its ever so little scar. Nothing we ever do is, in strict literalness, wiped out.’ The way to be beautiful without is to be beautiful within.
If you are not at the moment cheerful, - look, speak, act, as if you were. ‘You know I had no money, I had nothing to give myself,’ said a woman who had great sorrows to bear, but who bore them cheerfully. ‘I formed a resolution never to sadden anyone else with my troubles. I have laughed and told jokes when I could have wept. I have always smiled in the face of every misfortune. I have tried never to let anyone go from my presence without a happy word or a bright thought to carry away. And happiness makes happiness. I myself am happier than I should have been had I sat down and bemoaned my fate.’
Our trouble is that we do not half will ourselves to be cheerful. After a man’s habits are well set, about all he can do is to sit by and observe which way he is going. Regret it as he may, how helpless is a weak man, bound by the mighty cable of habit; twisted from tiny threads which he thought were absolutely within his control. Yet a habit of happy thought would transform his life into harmony and beauty. Is not the will almost omnipotent to determine habits before they become all-powerful?
What contributes more to health and happiness than a strong, vigorous will?
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of forming a habit of cheerfulness early in life. The serene optimist is one whose mind has dwelt so long upon the sunny side of life that he has acquired a habit of cheerfulness."
- Author, Orison Swett Marden
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