The Little Book of Good Advice

The Little Book of Good Advice

A frightened dog will never scare away a robber.

A joyous heart attracts joyous events.

All you need to do is ask.

A new interest is a new lease of life.

An ideal is a tendency.

An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.

Always the trials precede the attainment.

As above, so below. As within, so without.

As a door shuts, another door opens immediately.

A seed sown today may bear fruit long hence.

As the twig is bent, the tree inclines.

Avoid negative thinking, it shuts off your good.

Be free.

By attacking a thing, you give it power.

Call spades, spades.

Caring creates communication.

Concentration is the secret of power.

Desire a thing intensely enough and you are on the way to it.

Do, as you would be done by.

Do good and wrong no one.

Do good, be positive and love God.

Do not leave for tomorrow what can be done today.

Do not let other people rock your boat.

Do not let others do your thinking for you.

Do what is naturally right.

Each for all—All for each.

Even your failures are a valuable part of your experience.

Every action has a reaction.

Examine your motives always.

Experience is an asset.

Facts are facts. It is unwise to shut your eyes to simple facts.

Fair dealing covers the ground.

The farmer knows when to let a field lie fallow.

Find a little more time each day for doing nothing at all.

For everything, give thanks!

Giving opens the way for receiving.

The greatest Law you have is Love. Love! Love! Love!

The hardest road leads to the quickest and best results.

Have the leisure to dream and realise 

Honesty is the best policy.

The husk of the seed must be broken before the sprout can appear.

If you go high enough you may behold the inconceivable.

If you receive true knowledge you will have power enough.

If you want nothing you have everything.

I like to pay my debts.

Imagination is potent.

It is pain that mellows the heart.

It is the traveller with an open mind who makes discoveries.

Knowledge is the forerunner of power.

The Law of Life is the Law of Belief.

Learn to relax.

Let go of urgency. 

Let go—seek for nothing.

Life is so short.

Listen to the voice of intuition.

Live a good and clean and brave life.

Live, and let live.

Look up!

Love for all that lives!

Love is the Law of your being!

Love your enemies—that is the surest way to overcome them.

Make love the sole law of your life.

Make sacrifices.

Moderation in all things!

More is not necessarily better.

No matter how bad it gets, remember—it could have been worse.

Nothing can be achieved without time and patience.

The object of life is life.

Observe fully. Communicate truthfully.

Observe, observe. Observe.

Only give.

Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Perseverance pays.

Practice on moods.

Prove before accepting anything.

Respect brings respect.

Restraint, restraint! Restraint!

Sacrifice for others, and give to others what you most want for yourself.

Search and you will find. Ask and you will know.

See everything as it really is.

Serve if you hope to survive.

Strive on!

Speak always words of love, words of truth and words of kindness.

The surest way to attract disasters is to imagine them.

Surrender. Give in. Let go. Let God.

Take it easy—one day at a time.

Take more time to think.

Tell and live your truth.

There is always a better way.

There is always more than one point of view on everything.

The thing you fear attacks you sooner or later.

Think carefully before acting.

To posit is to create.

To receive you must give. That is the law.

Truly, practice makes perfect.

Trust your intuition—it points the way.

Unlimitedness—that is the key.

Watch the changing colours of a cloud.

We are all in one common brotherhood and sisterhood.

What you condemn in others you attract to yourself.

What you give to another you give to yourself.

What you resist persists.

What you set your heart upon must come about.

Where Love is God is.

Why worry? God is in control.

Why worry? It will probably never happen.

You attract what you fear.

You can do all things.

You can do practically anything you think you can do.

You can make something wonderful happen.

You can only receive what you see yourself receiving.

You can try harder.

You grow by pain, as well as pleasure.

You have a right to do about as you please.

You have made yourself just what you are.

You lose to gain again.

You make what you live in.

Your dreaming is a kind of building.

You receive most by giving most.

Your work is your own.

You seek what you desire.

You work too much.

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