June 14

Patient understanding is the secret of all human relationships.

June 13

Ernest Hemingway wrote of a commander in the Spanish Civil War who “never knew when everything was lost and if it was, he would fight out of it.” That is the way with people who have the quality of determination. They keep on going, no matter what. The hang-in-there attitude gives courage, strength, vitality, power. Somehow such people always seem to win through anything and everything.

June 12

Members of a service club in one city went out to give a dollar to every person on the streets who looked happy. At the day’s end, they had been able to give away only thirty-three dollars. Perhaps life in our cities is getting so impersonal that people feel insignificant and retreat into their shells and glare rather than smile. But a peaceful, happy face is a blessing to passersby and to oneself!

June 11

When Henry Ford, whom I like to quote, was seventy-five years old, he was asked the secret of his health and calm spirit. “Three rules,” he answered. “I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.”

June 10

On the dining room wall of a four-hundred-year-old inn in Saint Moritz, I read this inscription: “Just when you think everything is hopeless, a little ray of light comes from somewhere.” Your mind may seem to be dark and hopeless. But Almighty God, the Creator, established hope in you, an unshatterable hope deep within yourself. If darkness has settled deeply in your mind, just open up your thoughts and let in that “little ray of light [that] comes from somewhere.”

June 9

Mentally picture your body as being perfect both in condition and in function. Do not visualize it as in decline or as deteriorating. Train yourself to stop looking for something to go wrong. Think positively about your physical self. Think health, not sickness. This is important, for mental images tend to reproduce themselves in fact.