The Day Dawns

The day dawns and brings us another petty round of irritating concerns and duties.
Help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces.
Let cheerfulness abound with industry.
Let us go blithely about our business all this day,
bring us to our resting beds weary, content, not dishonored, and
grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
(Robert Louis Stevenson in Three Minutes A Day, Vol. 44 by The Christophers, 6 February)
6 February 2014

If You Can

• If you can take your troubles as they come,
• if you can maintain your calm and composure amid pressing duties and unending engagements,
• if you can rise above the distressing and disturbing circumstances in which you are set down,
• you have discovered a priceless secret of daily living.
• ... you have succeeded where most people have failed.

(Twenty-Four Hours A Day, 27 June)
27 June 2012

Duties Done

Character is developed by the daily discipline of duties done. 

(Twenty-Four Hours A Day, 21 May) 

1 June 2012