expatiate on the one stupid
trait and the one plain feature of a bright and handsome child,
intending to keep it from forming too good an opinion of itself.

To all young people I would say, cultivate a belief in yourself. Base
it on self-respect and confidence in God's love for his own handiwork.
Say to yourself, "I will be what I will to be." Not because your human
will is all-powerful, but because the Divine will is back of you.
Analyze your own abilities and find what you are best fitted to do.

Then get about the task of doing your chosen work to the very best of
your ability, and do not for an instant doubt your own capabilities.
Perhaps they may be dwarfed and enfeebled by years of morbid thought;
but if you persist in a self-respecting and self-reliant and
God-trusting course of thinking your powers will increase and your
capabilities strengthen.

It is no easy matter to overcome a habit of self-depreciation.

It is like straightening out a limb which has been twisted by a false
attitude or correcting a habit of sitting round-shouldered.

It requires a steady and persistent effort. When the depressing and
doubtful thoughts come drive them away like malaria-breeding insects.
Say, "This is not complimentary to my Maker. I am His work. I must be
worthy of my own respect and of that of others. I must and will
succeed."

Invincibility

If we persistently desire good things to come to us for unselfish
purposes, and at the same time faithfully perform the duties which lie
nearest, we will eventually find our desires being realized in the most
unexpected manner.

Our thought force has proved to be a wedge, opening the seemingly
inaccessible Wall of Circumstance.

To read good books, to think and ponder on what you read, to cultivate
every agreeable quality you observe in others, and to weed from your
nature every unworthy and disagreeable trait, to study humanity with an
idea of being helpful and sympathetic, all these efforts will help you
to the ultimate attainment of your wishes.

It is a proven fact that if we devote a few moments each day to
reaching exercises, standing with loose garments and stretching the
body muscles to reach some point above us, we increase our stature.

Just so if we mentally and spiritually are continually reaching to a
higher plane we are growing.

Every least thought of the brain is a chisel, chipping away at our
characters, and our characters are building our de