Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Orison Swett Marden
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usefulness in the world, than worry and its twin brother, despondency.
The remedy for the evil lies in training the will to cast off cares and seek a change of occupation, when the first warning is sounded by Nature in intellectual lassitude. Relaxation is the certain foe of worry, and 'don't fret' one of the healthiest of maxims." 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 per cent. of the energy of the coal, instead of having an electric dynamo that utilizes ninety per cent. of the power. Some people waste a large percentage of their energy in fretting and stewing, in useless anxiety, in scolding, in complaining about the weather and the perversity of inanimate things. Others convert nearly all of their energy into power and moral sunshine. He who has learned the true art of living will not waste his energies in friction, which accomplishes nothing, but merely grinds out the machinery of life. It must be relegated to the debating societies to determine which is the worse--A Nervous Man or A WORRYING WOMAN. "I'm awfully worried this morning," said one woman. "What is it?" "Why, I thought of something to worry about last night, and now I can't remember it." A famous actress once said: "Worry is the foe of all beauty." She might have added: "It is the foe to all health." "It seems so heartless in me, if I do not worry about my children," said |
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