Tag Archives: People

Old School: How To Be Happy

How To Be Happy

Are you almost disgusted with life, little man?

I’ll tell you a wonderful trick

That will bring you contentment, if anything you can,

Do something for somebody, quick!

Are you awfully tired with play, little girl?

Wearied, discouraged, and sick-

I’ll tell  you the loveliest game in the world,

Do something for somebody, quick!

Though it rains, like the rain of the flood, little man,

And the clouds are forbidding and thick,

You can make the sun shine in your soul, little man,

Do something for somebody, quick!

Though the star are like brass overhead, little girl

And the walks like a well-heated brick,

And our earthly affairs in a terrible whirl,

Do something for somebody, quick!

- Author Unknown

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Old School: I Know Something Good About You

I Know Something Good About You

Wouldn’t this old world be better

If the folks we meet would say-

“I know something good about you!”

And treat us just that way?

Wouldn’t it be find and dandy

If each handclasp, fond and true,

Carried with it this assurance-

“I know something good about you!”

Wouldn’t life be lots more happy

If the good thats in us all

Were the only thing about us

That folks bothered to recall?

Wouldn’t life be lots more happy

If we praised the good we see?

For theres such a lot of goodness

In the worst of you and me!

WOuldnt it be nice to practice

That fine way of thinking, too?

You know something good about me,

I know something good about you?

-Louis C. Shimon

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