Things To Learn in Life

1907

Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than medicine.

Learn to attend strictly to your own business — a very important point.

Learn how to tell a story. A well-told story is as welcome as a sunbeam in a sick room.

Learn to stop grumbling. If you cannot see any good in this world keep the bad to yourself.

Learn to keep your own troubles to yourself. The world is too busy to care for your ills and sorrows.

Learn to greet your friends with a smile. They carry too many frowns in their own hearts to be bothered with any of yours.

Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile. No one wants to know if you have the toothache or headache.


Bread and Lilies

The Chinese have a saying: "If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily. It is not the body alone that needs to be fed. Mind, heart and soul grow hungry, and many a time they are famishing when the larder is full. There are homes where the lilies are entirely crowded out by loaves, where there is no room for beauty or enjoyment, or even for love, to grow, because of the mad scramble after wealth. Fewer loaves and more lilies — less of the rush after material good, and more time for the gracious and beautiful things God has placed within reach of us all — would make happier and nobler lives.