such cases is inevitable.
Such a man grows, he improves, he ascends. He becomes a positive
dominating force in the world.
Can pulsating, vibrating, vitality of this kind be developed? Can one
who lacks enthusiasm and organic vigor obtain these valuable forces?
If you have failed up to the present to become a complete man, or a
splendid woman, can you achieve these extraordinary rewards in the
future? You can rest assured that if the necessary efforts are made a
revolution can be wrought in your physical and mental powers. You, too,
can feel these throbbing vital forces stirring your every nerve,
thrilling your very soul. Go to work, in an intelligent manner,
realizing that fundamentally the attainment of these great rewards
comes from the development of the highest degree of physical excellence.
You must have strength of body. You cannot have too much strength. The
more nearly you feel like a strong man the more you can achieve in the
desired direction. All successful men are, and have been, men of
tremendous energy. Their achievements have been simply the expression of
the vitality and nerve force which can no more be repressed than the
power of an engine when it has been once liberated. Success is due to
the dynamic quality of energy. It is true that physical energy and
bodily strength are not sufficient for success in all fields. One must
have aptitude for his chosen work. Your energy must be directed in the
proper channels, but without this energy and vitality you can accomplish
virtually nothing.
Take the one particular characteristic known as vivacity. How we envy
those who possess in abundance this great gift! No matter how
irregular one's features may be, even though they repel, if a smile
shows vivacity associated with a keen, intelligent personality,
one cannot be otherwise than attractive. John Bunny, with features
rough, unchiseled, ugly, almost uncouth, yet possessed a personality
that spread its contagious good humor to millions of people in all
quarters of the world who mourned his recent death as that of a personal
acquaintance. On the other hand, even though a man or woman possess
regular features, the lack of animated expression, of vivacity, causes
the person to be regarded as "cold" and "repellent." Speaking in the
vernacular, it puts you in the class of the "dead ones." One may say
that magnetism and all the desirable qualities that draw others to
us are clo
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