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Book and Life
Books are to
mankind what memory is to the contain the history
of our race, the
discoveries we have
made,the accumulated knowledge and experience of
ages;they picture for us
the
miracles
and
beauties
of
nature,
help
us
in
our
difficulties,comfort
us
in
sorrow
and
in
suffering, change hours
of weariness into moments of delight,store our
minds with ideas, fill them
with good
and happy thoughts,and lift us out of and above
of those who have had,
as we
say
, all that this world can give,have
yet told us they owed much of their purest
happiness to
ay had wealth and fame,
rank and power,and yet he tells us in his
biography that he
owed the happiest
hours of his life to says, “If any one would make
me
the greatest king
that
ever lived,with palaces and gardens and fine
dinners, and wines and coaches, and beautiful
clothes,and hundreds of servants, on
condition that I should not read books,I would not
be a king;I
would
rather
be
a
poor
man
in
a
garret
wi
th
plenty
of
books
than
a
king
who
didn’t
love
reading.”Precious
and
priceless
are
the
blessings
which
the
books
scatter
around
our
daily
walk,
in
imagination,
with
the
noblest
spirits,through
the
most solemn
and
charming
t stirring from our
firesides we may roam to the most remote regions
of the earth,or
soar into realms when
Spenser's shapes of unearthly beauty flock to meet
us,where Milton's angels
peal in our
ears the choral hymns of e, art, literature,
philosophy,
—
all that man has
thought,
all
that
man
has
done,
—
the
experience
that
has
been
bought
with
the
sufferings
of
a
hundred
generations,
—
all are
garnered up for us in the world of books.
The Y
ear of
Wandering
Between the preparation and
the work,the apprenticeship and the actual dealing
with a task or an
art,there
comes,
in
the
experience
of
many
young
men,a
period
of
uncertainty
and
wandering
which is often
misunderstood and counted as time wasted,when it
is, in fact, a period rich in full
and
free is as natural for ardent and courageous
youth to wish to know what is in
life,what
it
means,
and what
it
holds
for
its children,as
for
a child
to
reach
for
and search
the
things that surround and
attract every real worker in the world is a real
man,and a man
has a right to know the
conditions under which he must live,and the
choices of knowledge, power,
and
activity
which
are
offered
the
education
of
many
men
and
women,
therefore,
there
comes the year of wandering;the
experience of traveling from knowledge to
knowledge and from
occupation
to
forces which
go
to
the
making
of
a
powerful
man
can
rarely
be
adjusted
and
blended
without
some
disturbance
of
relations
and
disturbance
is
sometimes
injurious,because
it
affects
the
moral foundations
upon which
character rests;and for
this
reason
the
significance
of
the
experience
in
its
relation
to
development
ought
to
be
sympathetically
birth
of
the
imagination
and
of
the
passions,
the
perception
of
the
richness
of
life,and
the
consciousness
of
the
possession
of
the
power
to
master
and
use
that
wealth,create
a critical
moment
in
the
history
of
youth,
—
a
moment
richer
in
possibilities
of
all
kinds than comes at any
later ion and ferment of soul are inevitable in
that wonderful
are
times
when
agitation
is
as
normal
as
is
self-control
at
other
and
less critical
year of wandering is not a
manifestation of aimlessness, but of
aspiration,and that in its
ferment and
uncertainty youth is often guided to and finally
prepared for its task.
The Price of Perfection
Gold
may depreciate, stocks rise or fall,and business
values change so as to leave the market in
panic,but every man on the street or in
the store knows that one value forever remains
permanent,
unvarying,and that is other
asset may be swept away and success still achieved
if
this remain;every other aid may be
at its best and failure only await him who lacks
the wealth of
ter
is
that
of
which
reputation
is
but
the
echo,
often
mistaken
and
ter
is
the
last,
the
ultimate,
value
of
is
the
trend
of
the
whole
being
towards the is the
passion and power that holds one true despite all
is the one
thing
worth
having,
because
upon
it
all
other
values
asset comes
not
to
a
man
by
who
is
rich
in
character,whose success
in
many ways
is
built
upon
his
resources
in
this
way,does not just simply happen to be good, true,
and is a price to character;it
costs
more than any other thing, for it is worth more
than all other ially
it never
is
inherited,but always
acquired by processes often slow and toilsome and
at great you would
be perfect you must
pay the price of the passion of life is this
perfection it never
will
be
your
of
ideal
goodness
only waste
the
hours
in which
it
might
have
been
man ever finds character in his education of the
heart is a thing even
more
definite
than
the
education
of
the
school
of
character
has
an
infinite
variety
of
courses
and
an
unending
does
not
mean
that
this
prize
of
eternity
falls
only
to
those who
devote
themselves wholly
to self-culture,to
the
salvation
of
their
own
best
lives have thought little of
themselves,but they have lived for the ends of the
soul, to help men to
better living,to
save them from the things that blight and damn the
the Leader of men
they have found the
life unending by laying down their lives,paying
the full price, selling all
in
order
that
right
and
truth
and
honour
and
purity,love
and
kindness
and
justice
might remain
to
man.
The Blue Days
Everybody has blue days.
These are miserable days when you feel
lousy, grumpy
, lonely, and utterly
when
you
feel
small
and
insignificant, when
everything
seems
just
out
of
reach.Y
ou can’t
rise to
the
getting
started
seems
blue
days
you
can
become
paranoid
that
everyone
is
out
to
get
is
not
always such
a
bad
thing.Y
ou
feel
frustrated
and
anxious,
which can
induce
a
nail-
biting
frenzy
that
can
escalate
into
a
triple-chocolate-mud-cake-
eating
frenzy
in
a
blink
of
an
eye!On
blue
days
you
feel
like
you’re
floating
in
an
ocean
of
sadness.Y
ou’re about to
burst into tears at any moment and you don’t even
know tely,
you feel like you’re
wandering through life without
purpose.Y
ou’re not sure how much longer
you
can hang on, and you feel like
shouting,
“Will someone please
shoot me!”It doesn’t take much to
bring
on
a
blue
day.Y
ou
might
just
wake
up
not
feeling
or
looking
your
best,find
some
new
wrinkles, put on a
little weight, or get a huge pimple on your
nose.Y
ou could forget your date’s
name
or
have
an
embarrassing
photograph
published.Y
ou
might
get
dumped,divorced,
or
fired,
make a fool of
yourself in public,be afflicted with a demeaning
nickname,or just have a plain old
bad-
hair work is a pain in
the butt.Y
ou’re under major pressure to
fill someone else’s
shoes,your boss is
picking on you, and everyone in the office is
driving you crazy.Y
ou might have
a
splitting
headache,or
a
slipped
dish,
bad
breath,
a
toothache,chronic
gas,
dry
lips,
or
a
nasty
ingrown
er the reason, you’re convinced that someone up
there doesn’t like you.
Oh
what to do, what to dooo?
The
50-Percent Theory of Life
I believe
in the 50-percent
theory
.Half the time things are better
than normal; the other half, they
are
worse.I
believe
life
is
a
pendulum
takes
time
and
experience
to
understand
what
normal
is,and
that
gives
me
the
perspective
to
deal
with
the
surprises
of
the
’s
benchmark
the parameters: Y
es, I will die.I’ve
dealt with the deaths of both parents, a best
friend,
a
beloved
boss
and
cherished
of
these
deaths
have
been
violent,
before
my
eyes,
or
slow and stuff, and it
belongs at the bottom of the there are those high
points: romance and marriage to the
right person;having a child and doing those Dad
things like
coaching my son’s baseball
team,paddling around the creek in the boat while
he’s swimming with
the
dogs;discovering
his
compassion
so
deep
it
manifests
even
in
his
kindness
to
snails,his
imagination
so
vivid
he
builds
a
spaceship
from
a
scattered
pile
of
there
is
a
vast
meadow
of
life
in
the
middle,
where
the
bad
and
the
good flip-flop
is
what
convinces
me
to
believe
in
the
50-percent
spring
I
planted
corn
too
early
in
a
bottomland
so
flood-prone
that
neighbors
laughed.I
felt
chagrined
at
the
wasted
turned
brutal
—
the worst heat wave
and drought in my air-conditioner died, the well
went
dry
,
the marriage
ended,
the
job
lost,
the
money
gone.I
was
living
lyrics
from
a country
tune
—
music I a
surging Kansas City Royals team, bound for their
first World Series,
buoyed
my g
back
on
that
horrible
summer,I
soon
understood
that
all
succeeding
good things merely offset the than
normal wouldn’t last long.I am owed and savor the
halcyon
reinvigorate
me
for
the
next
nasty
surprise
and
offer
assurance
that
I
can
50-
percent
theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals’
recent slump,a field of
struggling
rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an
October harvest.
Searching for a
Win-Win Solution
Recently I have had a
dilemma I'm trying to resolve, a weekend in the
near future where I have
conflicting
demands
and
values,
and
need
to
be
in
two
places
at
the
same
time.I
have
agonized
over this decision because my intuition
is not giving me a clear answer and I haven't felt
that there
was a win-win I do one
thing, I'm letting down a bunch of I do the
other, I'm
also missing the way I feel
like a loser, not a morning I got an e-mail that
directly
addresses
this
dilemma:A
Thinking
Test
Y
ou
are
driving
along
on
a
wild,
stormy
night.Y
ou pass by a bus
stop, and you see three people waiting for the
bus:1. An old lady who is
sick and
about to die.2. An old friend who once saved your
life.3. The perfect man or woman you
have been dreaming one would you
choose to pick up, knowing that there could only
be one passenger in your car?The
candidate who was hired simply
answered:
keys to my old friend, and let
him take the lady to the hospital.I would stay
behind and wait for the
bus
with
the
woman
of
my
dreams.
we
gain
more
if
we
are
able
to
give
up
our
stubborn thought limitations and think
outside the , like me, you are looking
at a decision
that makes you
feel forced to choose between plan
A
or plan
B,and
neither plan by
itself seems
like the right decision,stretch your
mind to consider plans C or D,to a third option
that solves the
problem in a whole new
e that there is a solution you haven't yet thought
of,which will
enable you to feel good
about your choice, and then search for what it
is.Y
ou are not always the
victim in life;most of the time you are
the victor looking at the situation from the wrong
view!The
view is yours to choose.
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