"Good Things to Learn"

This is a page of positive quotations I found in an old teaching file this evening. However, the website Geocities is closed. So I'd like to type it up and share. You don't need to agree with everything you read.

Good Things To Learn

Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than medicine.

Learn how to tell a story. A well-told story is as welcome as a sunbeam in a sick room.

Learn to keep your own troubles to yourself. The world is too busy to care for your ills and sorrows.

My comments: Well, I don't agree. As a friend or a teacher, I am always willing to be a good listener.

Learn to stop croaking. If you cannot see any good in this world, keep the bad to yourself.

Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile.

Learn to attend strictly to your own business—very important point.

Learn to greet your friends with a smile. They carry too many frowns in their own hearts, to be bothered with yours.

 

Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name, in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with years by year; you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven. Thomas Chalmers.

If the sun is going down, look up at the stars; if the earth is dark, keep your eyes on Heaven. With God’s presence and God’s promises, a man or a child may be cheerful. Aids to Endeavor.

Do all the good you can to all the people you can as long as ever you can, in every place that you can. Gertrude E. McVenn.

Make a rule, and pray God to help you keep it, never, if possible, to lie down at night, without being able to say, “I have made one human being, at least, a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day.” You will find it easier than you think, and pleasanter.  Charles Kingsley.