“Why do we allow anticipated joys to blind us to those that are close by” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“It is the juices of youth, the joy and gladness carried along through the busy years that make old age tolerable.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. The right mental attitude, the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“No joy for which thy hungering soul has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But, if thou dost deserve it,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The first duty we owe a child is to teach him to fling out his inborn gladness and joy with the same… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Learn to radiate joy, not stingily, not meanly, but generously. Fling out your gladness without reserve. Shed it in the home, on… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“She alone is the happy woman who has learned to extract happiness, not from ideal conditions, but from the actual ones about… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We can so educate the will power that it will focus the thoughts upon the bright side of things, and upon objects which elevate… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Gulliver was a giant whom the dwarfs captured while he was napping by binding him with tiny threads. Each thread was a trifle which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The hatred thought cannot live an instant in the presence of the love thought.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“About as poor business as one can engage in is that of going through life with one's eyes so fixed upon what others have,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
