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Why Grow Old? (1909)

Book Facts... Why Grow Old?

Author:

Orison Swett Marden

Publisher:

Thomas Y. Crowell & Company

Year Published:

1909

Number of Pages:

30

Number of Chapters:

One

Sub-Title:

None

Read on and learn more about this great classic:


Selected Quotes From: Why Grow Old?

"We do not half realize what slaves we are to our mental attitudes, what power our convictions have to influence our lives. Multitudes of people undoubtedly shorten their lives by many years because of their deep-seated convictions that they will not live beyond a certain age."

"There must be a constant activity in the mind that would not age. 'Keep growing or die' is nature's motto, a motto written all over everything in the universe."

"Peopl who are very useful, who are doing their work grandly, growing vigorously, retain their youthful appearance. We can form the habit of staying young just as well as the habit of growing old."

- Orison Swett Marden





Why Grow Old?
Key Points Include:

1. The Elixir Of Youth Lies In The Mind Or Nowhere
2. She Was Just As Old As She Thought She Was
3 Keep Growing Or Die
4. How Quickly Old Thoughts Make New Cells Look Old
5. Discordant Thought Of Every Kind Shortens Life
6. Faith In Immortal Principle Of Health
7. A Perpetual Renewal Picture
8. Always Think Health
9. The Race For Perpetual Youth


Excerpt From the Self-Help Classic... Why Grow Old?

"HOW OFTEN WE HEAR: 'I do not expect to live to be very old; my father and mother died young.'

Not long ago a New York man, in perfect health, told his family that he was certain he should die on his next birthday. On the morning of his birthday, his family, alarmed because he refused to go to work, saying that he should certainly die before midnight, insisted upon calling in the family physician, who examined him and said there was nothing the matter with him. But the man refused to eat, grew weaker and weaker during the day, and actually died before midnight.

The conviction that he was going to die had become so entrenched in his mind that the whole force of his mentality acted to cut off the life force, and finally to strangle completely the life processes.

No, if this man's convictions could have been changed by someone who had sufficient power over him, or if the mental suggestion that he was going to live to a good old age had been implanted in his mind in place of the death idea, he would probably have lived many years longer.

If you have convinced yourself, or if the ideas has been ingrained into the very structure of your being by your training or the multitudes of examples about you, that you will begin to show the marks of age at about fifty, that at sixty you will lose the power of your faculties, your interest in life; that you will become practically useless and have to retire from your business, and that thereafter you will continue to decline until you are cut off entirely, there is no power in the world that can keep the old-age processes and signs from developing in you.

Thought leads. If it is an old-age thought, old age must follow. If its is a youthful thought, a perennial young-life thought, a thought of usefulness and helpfulness, the body must correspond.

Old age begins in the mind. The expression of age in the body is the harvest of old-age ideas which have been planted in the mind. We see others about our age beginning to decline and show marks of decrepitude, and we imagine it is about time for us to show the same signs. Ultimately we do show them, because we think they are inevitable. But they are only inevitable because of our old-age mental attitude and habitual beliefs."

- Orison Swett Marden


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