"A Better Way To Live"
By Og Mandino
Seventeen Rules To Live By:
1. Count your blessings.
2. Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do.
3. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you.
4. Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family.
5. Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts.
6. Never boast; always let your actions speak for you.
7. Never whine; each day is a special gift from God.
8. Never clutter your days and nights with menial unimportant things.
9. Live this day as if it will be your last.
10. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead at midnight.
11. Laugh at yourself and at life. Never take life too seriously.
12. It doesn't matter what others think; only what you think of yourself.
13. Welcome every morning with a smile.
14. You will achieve your grand dream a day at a time. Set goals for each day.
15. Never allow anyone to rain on your parade.
16. Search for the seed of good in every adversity.
17. Realize that true happiness lies within you. Look inside yourself.
"Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." - Aristotle
"The purpose in life is to be happy." - Dalai Lama
Interesting fact about Og Mandino: "Because Mandino was color-blind, it was necessary for his wife, Bette, to write down the color of each pair of pants on the zipper area and mark his ties with numbers, before leaving for any speaking engagements and book tours. Bette also had to put a stack of cards inside Mandino's suitcase to help him identify which pair of pants would match with his ties." (Taken from Wikipedia - here is the link)
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