If You Want to Be Loved

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 27, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 5.

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If You Want to Be Loved

Don’t contradict people, even if you’re sure you are right.

Don’t be inquisitive about the affairs of even your most intimate friend.

Don’t underrate anything because you do not possess it.

Don’t believe that everybody else in the world is happier than you.

Don’t conclude that you have never had any opportunities in life.

Don’t believe all the evils you hear.

Don’t repeat gossip, even if it does interest a crowd.

Don’t jeer at anybody’s religious belief.

Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile. Few care whether you have the earache, headache, or rheumatism.

Learn to attend to your own business—a very important point.

Do not try to be anything else but a gentleman or a gentlewoman; and that means one who has consideration for the whole world, and whose life is governed by the golden rule: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”—Christian World.