Category: My message for you

“I will remain aware of how little it takes to make this a happy day. Never will I pursue happiness because it is not a goal, just a by-product and there is no happiness in having or getting, only in giving.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will run from no danger I might encounter today, because I am certain that nothing will happen to me that I am not equipped to handle with your help. Just as any gem is polished by friction. I am certain to become more valuable through this day’s adversities, and if one door closes, you always open another for me.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will live this day as if it were Christmas and I will be a giver of gifts. To my enemies I will give the gift of forgiveness; to my opponents, tolerance; to my friends, a smile; and to my children, a good example, and every gift will be wrapped with unconditional love.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will treat today as a priceless violin. One may draw harmony from it and another, discord, yet no one will blame the instrument. Life is the same, and if I play it correctly, it will give forth beauty, but if I play it ignorantly, it will produce ugliness.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will condition myself to see every problem I encounter today as if it were no more than a pebble in my shoe. I remember the pain, so harsh I could hardly walk, and recall my surprise when I removed my shoe and found only a grain of sand.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will work convinced that nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. To do anything today that is truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will face the world with goals set for this day, but they will be attainable ones, not the vague, impossible variety declared by those who make a career of failure. I realize that you always try me with a little, first, to see what I would do with a lot.”

~ Og Mandino