PROMISE YOURSELF

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look on the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and to have a smile ready for every living creature you meet.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world--no in loud words, but in great deeds.
To live in the faith that the world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

-Christen D. Larson

My Own Comes to me

As the stars come nightly to the sky
And the tidal wave comes to the sea
Neither time, nor space, not deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.
-John Burroughs