Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of tactiturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
Have you actually measured up? If you don't have that courage to look at yourself and say, Well, I failed miserably there, I hurt someone's feeling needlessly, I lost my temper - which you must never do except deliberately - you don't meaure up to your own standards.
It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success of failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
A smile is the simplest thing. Anyone can do it. Yet a smile is also one of the most profound things ever created.
