If you would increase your happiness and prolong your life,
forget your neighbor's faults. Forget all the slander you have ever heard.
Forget the temptations. Forget the fault finding, and give a little thought to the
cause which provoked it. Forget the peculiarities of your friends, and only
remember the good points which make you fond of them. Forget all personal
quarrels or histories you may have heard by accident, and which, if 'repeated,
w6uldseem a thousand times worse than they are. Blot out as far as possible all
the disagreeables of life; they will come, but will only grow larger when you
remember them, and the constant thought of the facts of cleanness or, worse still, malice, will only
tend to make you more familiar with them. Obliterate everything disagreeable
from yesterday, start out with a clean sheet today, and write upon it for sweet
memory's sake only the things which are lovely and lovable.
Clare Montuera
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