Things to Forget by The American

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 21, 1911

Things to Forget

By The American

If you would increase your happiness and prolong your life, forget your neighbor's faults. Forget the temptations. Forget the fault-finding, and give little thought to the cause which provoked it. Forget the peculiarities of your friends, and only remember the good points which make you fond of them. Forget all personal quarrels or histories you may have heard by accident, and which, if repeated, would seem a thousand times worse than they are. Blot out as far as possible all the disagreeablenesses of life. They will come, but they will grow larger when you remember them; and the constant thought of acts of meanness, or, worse still, malice, will only tend to make you more familiar with them. Obliterate everything disagreeable from yesterday. Start out with a clean sheet for to-day; and write upon it for sweet memory's sake, only those things which are lovely and lovable.—The American.