The Optimistic Life, or in the Cheering Up Business
About this book
The Optimistic Life (or in the Cheering Up Business) is a book about friends and the power of amiability. No person could have better capital than plenty of friends. an important component of living the good life. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money. It is also about the power of genius, the powder of success, and the ability to let go of life burdens. The author says: If you have had an unfortunate experience, forget it. If you have made a failure in speech, your song, your book, your article, if you have been placed in an embarrassing position, if you have fallen and hurt yourself by a false step, if you have been slandered and abused, do not dwell upon it. There is not a single redeeming feature in these memories, and the presence of their ghosts will rob you of many a happy hour. There is nothing in it. Drop them. Forget them. Wipe them out of your mind forever. If you have been indiscreet, imprudent, if you have been talked about, if your reputation has been injured so that you fear you can never outgrow it or redeem it, do not drag the hideous shadows, the rattling skeletons about with you Rub them off from the shite of memory. Wipe them out. Forget them. Start with a clean slate and spend all your energies in keeping it clean for the future. This, and other gems of wisdom is this book, will enable the reader to be more optimistic and positive.