Cheerfulness as a Life Power - Softcover

Marden, Orison Swett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596053038 ISBN 13: 9781596053038

Publisher: Cosimo Classics, 2005

Synopsis

Book Excerpt: ies they live to enjoy life; here they exist for business." A Boston merchant corroborated this statement by saying he was anxious all day about making money, and worried all night for fear he should lose what he had made."In the United States," a distinguished traveler once said, "there is everywhere comfort, but no joy. The ambition of getting more and fretting over what is lost absorb life.""Every man we meet looks as if he'd gone out to borrow trouble, with plenty of it on hand," said a French lady, upon arriving in New York."The Americans are the best-fed, the best-clad, and the best-housed people in the world," says another witness, "but they are the most anxious; they hug possible calamity to their breasts.""I question if care and doubt ever wrote their names so legibly on the faces of any other population," says Emerson; "old age begins in the nursery."How quickly we Americans exhaust life! With what panting haste we pursue everything! Every man you meet seems tRead More

About this title

From the Back Cover

Not much has changed in the century since Orison Swett Marden wrote those words, and offered the antidote to them with this delightful little book. A forerunner of Dale Carnegie and Norman Vincent Peale, Stephen R.Covey and Anthony Robbins, and one of the prime figures in early self-help and motivational movements, Marden proclaims with joy the ways to cultivate positivity. He explains:

"The Cure for Americanitis"
the benefits of "Singing at Your Work"
"The Don't Worry Society"
and much more.

First published in 1899, Cheerfulness as a Life Power is exactly as necessary today as it was then. Replete with charming anecdotes and pleasant advice, it offers the keys to acquiring "a habit of cheerfulness."
Also available from Cosimo Classics: Marden's two-volume Pushing to the Front.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596053038
• ISBN 13: 9781596053038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84