Thoughts on Life/Life
LIFE.
LIFE.
1. He who hath placed thee here upon earth hath meant thy life should be of some avail. See thou to it that it be not in vain.
2. To those of us who realize the responsibility of living, it is indeed a solemn thing to have been intrusted with the great gift of life.
3. Doth thy past reproach thee, make thy future atone for it.
4. Thou canst live but once. What art thou doing with thy life? It were sometimes well to pause and ask thyself this question in the midst of thine affairs.
5. Have a purpose in thy life,—some noble aim, some blessed goal towards which thou strivest ever.
6. Let truth be the key-note of thy life's song.
7. Strive to make men better for thy daily walk among them.
8. Thou art rearing the structure of thy life day by day. Art thou making it fair and strong and beautiful, so that it will be a credit to thee when at last thou shalt have finished it and must account for it to the great Master Builder?
9. Have thy moorings. Let not the bark of thy life be swept about by bitter-blowing winds.
10. Sit not thou with folded hands in a world where so much waits to be done.
11. Let not the life be wrecked by adverse circumstances. Rise above them, and show to the world that sublime sight,—an indomitable soul.
12. It is much to have beautified life for others.
13. If thou canst brighten another life thine own is not in vain.
14. In thy daily walk through life strive to dwell upon the beautiful and the good, rather than upon the unsightly and the evil.
15. Every man must fight his own battle in life; it is something which cannot be done by proxy.
16. If the lyre of thy life doth sometimes fail to yield its accustomed sweetness, it may be thy soul is out of tune and not the instrument.
17. Human destiny is much the same for all of us: without our own volition we take up the struggle here upon earth. We toil, we hope; we fear, we love; we weep, we smile; we die, we live at last.
18. No life is a failure that grows purer and nobler day by day.
19. Thou must die, but thou canst leave a legacy to the world. The record of a noble life is a gift to all time.
20. Though the conditions of thy life be unfavorable, yet mayest thou rise above them, creating thus for thyself a better and a fairer temple of existence, into which thou mayest enter and dwell safely, and where thou wilt find a noble life to be a happy one also.