A New Look from Borrowed Time By Ralph Richmond Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a stethoscope. Yes, he said, there is a lesion in the left, upper lobe. You have a moderately advanced case I listened, stunned, as he contin...
I Wish I Could believe by C. Day Lewis The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intesity. Those two lines of Yeats for me sum up the matter as it stands today when the very currency of belief seems debased. I was brought u...
Life, free to soar by Wayne B.Lynn One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong...
Chain of Love How do you account for your remarkable accomplishment in life? Queen Victoria of England asked Helen Keller. How do you explain the fact that even though you were both blind and deaf, you were able to accomplish so much? Ms. Keller's an...
The highest grace A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the...
A Freeman's Worship The life of Man, viewed outwardly, is but a small thing in comparison with the forces of Nature. The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all h...
Of beauty Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best, in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect. Neither is it almost seen, that very beautif...
Are You Ignoring That Little Thought What happened to that brilliant idea that you once had? Did you ignore it because you thought that it was just a little thought ? Have you ever considered what that little thought would have become if you had acte...
Increasing Confidence Robert Stuberg The world is changing rapidly and most people are very anxious about it. In fact, I think it might even be stronger and more accurate to say that most people are downright fearful of what they see going on around...
A March Snow Ella Wheeler Wilcox Let the old snow be covered with the new: The trampled snow, so soiled, and stained, and sodden. Let it be hidden wholly from our view By pure white flakes, all trackless and untrodden. When Winter dies, low at the sw...
A Wayfaring Song Henry van Dyke 0 who will walk a mile with me Along life's merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, Who dares to laugh out loud and free And let his frolic fancy play, Like a happy child, through the flowers gay That fill the fi...
A Morning Wish The sun is just rising in the morning of another day. What can I wish that this day may bring me? Nothing that shall make the world or others poorer, nothing at the expense of other men; but just those few things which in their coming...
For Success in Life Thinking is necessary if you want to successd in life. people fear that thinking may upset their comfort and self-satifaction. thinking needs constant practice with enthusiasm, enthusiasm generates interest and susutains thinking....
A Reporter Quotes His Sources Its rather difficult in these noisy, confusing, nerve-racking days to achieve the peace of mind in which to pause for a moment to reflect on what you believe in. Theres so little time and opportunity to give it much thou...
Good Mistakes It's good to make mistake, and here is why. First of all, mistakes are a clear sign that you are trying new things. It's always good to try new things because when you are trying new things you are growing. If you never try anything new...
