is fresh from the hand of God. It
is mine to use. I will increase it unto the Perfect Day." Grow in each
day, and make each day grow. Check discord. Quit useless discussion
for it weakens and withers. Stop quarreling. Check complainings. Root
criticism out of your life. You are bigger than these things. Get into
harmony. You are of the world, upon worlds, universe unto universe.
Study your words to make them have beauty, your walk to have grace,
your personality to make it magnetic, your smile to give courage and
comfort, your presence to have it healing, helping, inspiring. "If
there be any virtue in whatsoever things are lovely, think on those
things."
=YOUTH IS LOVING WORK:= Like what you do. Do what makes you and
others happy. Enter your daily work with joy. Adjust it until you do
like it. Learn to love work for the happiness it brings. Put joy
into your work in the morning and you will find it multiplied into
happiness at night. Work is a law of youth. Inaction is decay. Inertia
is death. Men and women do not usually lose their positions, they
drive their positions away from them. The law of work will not stand
personal abuse, any more than the law of beauty will endure brutality.
Form an ideal of your work, make a mental picture of it, simplify it,
orderly it, beautify it, then glorify it. Start the process in the
slightest degree and you will get a result. Put a new shock absorber
on your disposition. Bring your fine sensibilities to your work, be
big morally, be deep mentally, and work with confident expectation.
Put rules and system into your daily task. Exercise your self-control,
your self-possession, self-mastery, march up to your task with
efficiency backed up by a dominant will. Realize your Supreme
Personality in your work. Put the absolute "I AM," into your purpose
of toil. Put dominating decision "I HAVE DECIDED," into your efforts.
Put invincible determination, "I WILL," into your complex problem. Put
irresistible confidence, "I SHALL ACHIEVE," into your ardent desires.
You will then love work. When you come to love work you will not
exhaust yourself in it, you will not tire your brain and body with its
friction, because you will not work with selfish purposes, but work to
enrich the world. "Love is the fulfilling of the law."
=YOUTH IS SUPREME CHEERFULNESS:= To be funless is to be lifeless.
Good cheer is the tonic of youth. If you are so sad you cannot laugh
at something, then laugh at nothing. "L
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