On This Day | His Mind to Him a Kingdom Is (Republished In Its Entirety)
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As a rule our minds are kits of tools with which any one of us may carve beautiful things and build great ones, yet for the most part we put them to no higher or better use than the magnetizing of money, at which they fail more often than they succeed.
And when they have failed us in this we set them to the manufacture of misery, in which they are capable of turning out just as many kinds and colors as we will allow.
There is nothing in this world more pitiful than the person who whines at you that he has had no chance, for he represents a mass of material that has been allowed to go to waste amid surroundings always favorable to some good and fairly profitable use.
In most instances of this sort the cause of failure may be found lurking in this fact—that the complainer sought for everything from without and made no attempt to found his life on what was within himself.
Time and time again we meet men and women whose beginnings in life would seem to warrant some such wail, but these are not the ones from whom it comes. Battling with conditions that appeared to be hopeless, they have discovered the ever-present blue patch in the black sky and guided themselves by the stars seen through the opening.
There are so many stars in the sky of life—even as in the sky above our heads—that the littlest rifts in the clouds will show at least one, and nearly always more than one.
The one real world in which we live is that of our own thoughts.
All things are as we think they are.
It is, therefore, easy to see that failure to use the mind spells failure in almost any undertaking, if not all of them. And the reverse is true—that we succeed in just such measure as we think, and that the higher we think the higher our success.
The happiest persons are not those who have the largest share of material belongings, but those who have made the fullest use of their mentality, gaining thereby such wealth as cannot be taken away, even though the bottom fall out of all markets.
— November 1, 1923 | The Ward County Independent
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