How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

A. Instead of worrying about ingratitude, let's expect it. Let's remember that Jesus healed ten lepers in one day and only one thanked Him. Why should we expect more gratitude than Jesus got?
B. Let's remember that the only way to find happiness is not to expect gratitude, but to give for the joy of giving.
C. Let's remember that gratitude is a "cultivated" trait; so if we want our children to be grateful, we must train them to be grateful.

"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation. You do not find it among gross people."

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do," because "all of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment, of education, of acquired habits and of heredity molding men as they are and will for ever be."

every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one and hate no one."

have no time to quarrel," he said, "no time for regrets, and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him."

We may not be saintly enough to love our enemies, but, for the sake of our own health and happiness, let's at least forgive them and forget them.

"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Think and act cheerfully, and you will feel cheerful.