Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions, Reasonably Good-natvred, Concerning how to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others |
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Page 9
I desire to radiate health , cheerfulness , calm courage and good will tattoo I wish
to live without hate , whim , jealousy , envy , fear . I wish to be simple , honest ,
frank , natural , clean in mind and clean in body , unaffectedready to say “ I do not
...
I desire to radiate health , cheerfulness , calm courage and good will tattoo I wish
to live without hate , whim , jealousy , envy , fear . I wish to be simple , honest ,
frank , natural , clean in mind and clean in body , unaffectedready to say “ I do not
...
Page 13
Asceticism in our day finds an interesting manifestation in the Trappists , who live
on a mountain top , nearly inaccessible , and deprive themselves of almost every
vestige of bodily comfort , going without food for days , wearing uncomfortable ...
Asceticism in our day finds an interesting manifestation in the Trappists , who live
on a mountain top , nearly inaccessible , and deprive themselves of almost every
vestige of bodily comfort , going without food for days , wearing uncomfortable ...
Page 15
... cease trying to compel all other men to live after one pattern . Most people are
anxious to do what is best for themselves and least harmful for others . The
average Love , Life and Work 15.
... cease trying to compel all other men to live after one pattern . Most people are
anxious to do what is best for themselves and least harmful for others . The
average Love , Life and Work 15.
Page 20
And the moral is , that as long as you are satisfied and comfortable , you use only
the objective mind and live in the world of sense . But let love be torn from your
grasp and flee as a shadow - living only as a memory in a haunting sense of loss
...
And the moral is , that as long as you are satisfied and comfortable , you use only
the objective mind and live in the world of sense . But let love be torn from your
grasp and flee as a shadow - living only as a memory in a haunting sense of loss
...
Page 72
Do your work to - day , doing it the best you can , and live one day at a time . The
man that does this is conserving his God - given energy , and not spinning it out
into tenuous spider threads so fragile and filmy that unkind Fate will probably ...
Do your work to - day , doing it the best you can , and live one day at a time . The
man that does this is conserving his God - given energy , and not spinning it out
into tenuous spider threads so fragile and filmy that unkind Fate will probably ...
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| Title | Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions, Reasonably Good-natvred, Concerning how to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others |
| Author | Elbert Hubbard |
| Publisher | The Roycrofters, 1906 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 149 pages |
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