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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

Are you living for happiness?

What are you doing to produce happiness?

Are you dressing beyond your means; taking more "days off" than you can afford; buying more things than you need or can use?

Are you eating and drinking solely for the pleasure of the palate, and for the enjoyment of the moment, and with no thought of what nourishes, or what clogs the system and produces disease?

Perhaps you say it takes all your strength and time to supply the mere "necessities of life," and you are unhappy because of this fact.

But what are the necessities of life?

Were you to be cast on a desert island, with plenty of good water, grains and fruit, honey and nuts, you would be surprised to find how little food it takes to supply the body with nourishment and to sustain good health.

We do not care to live as we would if obliged to dwell upon a desert island; but that does not prove the luxuries in which we indulge are "life's necessities."

So, in thinking over your life and its hardships and obligations, do not put the blame on "life's necessities" when you find you are using all your time and money and effort to merely live.

You are really exhausting yourself to follow standards set by others.

This can never produce happiness.

If you wear yourself out in the struggle to buy a motor car, and to sustain one, because your neighbors have this luxury, and not because your income and position make the car a suitable possession, you will never reach happiness.

Happiness in material things comes only in having

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