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    Cheerfulness as a Life Power

    By Orison Swett Marden

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    Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924) was an inspirational American author who wrote on achieving success in life.  Marden created SUCCESS magazine in 1897 and his ideas are still sound in modern times.  This edition of Cheerfulness as a Life Power includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781508016359
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    Orison Swett Marden

    El Dr. Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924) fue un autor inspirador estadounidense que escribió sobre cómo lograr el éxito en la vida. A menudo se le considera como el padre de los discursos y escritos inspiradores de la actualidad, y sus palabras tienen sentido incluso hasta el día de hoy. En sus libros, habló de los principios y virtudes del sentido común que contribuyen a una vida completa y exitosa. A la edad de siete años ya era huérfano. Durante su adolescencia, Marden descubrió un libro titulado Ayúdate del autor escocés Samuel Smiles. El libro marcó un punto de inflexión en su vida, inspirándolo a superarse a sí mismo y a sus circunstancias. A los treinta años, había obtenido sus títulos académicos en ciencias, artes, medicina y derecho. Durante sus años universitarios se mantuvo trabajando en un hotel y luego convirtiéndose en propietario de varios hoteles. Luego, a los 44 años, Marden cambió su carrera a la autoría profesional. Su primer libro, Siempre Adelante (1894), se convirtió instantáneamente en un éxito de ventas en muchos idiomas. Más tarde publicó cincuenta o más libros y folletos, con un promedio de dos títulos por año. Marden creía que nuestros pensamientos influyen en nuestras vidas y nuestras circunstancias de vida. Dijo: "La oportunidad de oro que estás buscando está en ti mismo. No está en tu entorno; no es la suerte o el azar, o la ayuda de otros; está solo en ti mismo".

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      Cheerfulness as a Life Power - Orison Swett Marden

      CHEERFULNESS AS A LIFE POWER

      ………………

      Orison Swett Marden

      KYPROS PRESS

      Thank you for reading. In the event that you appreciate this book, please show the author some love.

      This book is a work of nonfiction and is intended to be factually accurate.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2015 by Orison Swett Marden

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Cheerfulness as a Life Power

      A FOREWORD.

      I. WHAT VANDERBILT PAID FOR TWELVE LAUGHS.

      II. THE CURE FOR AMERICANITIS.

      III. OILING YOUR BUSINESS MACHINERY.

      IV. TAKING YOUR FUN EVERY DAY AS YOU DO YOUR WORK.

      V. FINDING WHAT YOU DO NOT SEEK.

      VI. LOOKING PLEASANT—SOMETHING TO BE WORKED FROM THE INSIDE.

      VII. THE SUNSHINE-MAN.

      Cheerfulness as a Life Power

      By

      Orison Swett Marden

      CHEERFULNESS AS A LIFE POWER

      ………………

      A FOREWORD.

      ………………

      THE SOUL-CONSUMING AND FRICTION-WEARING TENDENCY of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this booklet. Is it not an absolute necessity to get rid of all irritants, of everything which worries and frets, and which brings discord into so many lives? Cheerfulness has a wonderful lubricating power. It lengthens the life of human machinery, as lubricants lengthen the life of inert machinery. Life’s delicate bearings should not be carelessly ground away for mere lack of oil. What is needed is a habit of cheerfulness, to enjoy every day as we go along; not to fret and stew all the week, and then expect to make up for it Sunday or on some holiday. It is not a question of mirth so much as of cheerfulness; not alone that which accompanies laughter, but serenity,—a calm, sweet soul-contentment and inward peace. Are there not multitudes of people who have the blues, who yet wish well to their neighbors? They would say kind words and make the world happier—but they haven’t the time. To lead them to look on the sunny side of things, and to take a little time every day to speak pleasant words, is the message of the hour.

      The Author.

      I. WHAT VANDERBILT PAID FOR TWELVE LAUGHS.

      ………………

      WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT, WHEN HE last visited Constantinople, one day invited Coquelin the elder, so celebrated for his powers as a mimic, who happened to be in the city at the time, to give a private recital on board his yacht, lying in the Bosphorus. Coquelin spoke three of his monologues. A few days afterwards Coquelin received the following memorandum from the millionaire:—

      "You have brought tears to our eyes and laughter to our hearts. Since all philosophers are agreed that laughing is preferable to weeping, your account with me stands thus:—

      "For tears, six times$600

      "For laughter, twelve times2,400

      ————

      $3,000

      Kindly acknowledge receipt of enclosed check.

      I find nonsense singularly refreshing, said Talleyrand. There is good philosophy in the saying, Laugh and grow fat. If everybody knew the power of laughter as a health tonic and life prolonger the tinge of sadness which now clouds the American face would largelydisappear, and many physicians would find their occupation gone.

      The power of laughter was given us to serve a wise purpose in our economy. It is Nature’s device for exercising the internal organs and giving us pleasure at the same time.

      Laughter begins in the lungs and diaphragm, setting the liver, stomach, and other internal organs into a quick, jelly-like vibration, which gives a pleasant sensation and exercise, almost equal to that of horseback riding. During digestion, the movements of the stomach are similar to churning. Every time you take a full breath, or when you cachinnate well, the diaphragm descends and gives the stomach an extra squeeze and shakes it. Frequent laughing sets the stomach to dancing, hurrying up the digestive process. The heart beats faster, and sends the blood bounding through the body. There is not, says Dr. Green, one remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood-vessels of the human body that does not feel some wavelet from the convulsions occasioned by a good hearty laugh. In medical terms, it stimulates the vasomotor centers, and the spasmodic contraction of the blood-vessels causes the blood to flow quickly. Laughter accelerates the respiration, and gives warmth and glow to the whole system. It brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used lung cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health, which results from the harmonious action of all the functions of the body. This delicate poise, which may be destroyed by a sleepless night, a piece of bad news, by grief or anxiety, is often wholly restored by a good hearty laugh.

      There is, therefore, sound sense in the caption,—Cheerfulness as a Life Power,—relating as it does to the physical life, as well as the mental and moral; and what we may call

      THE LAUGH CURE

      is based upon principles recognized as sound by the medical profession—so literally true is the Hebrew proverb that a merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

      Mirth is God’s medicine, said Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,—all the rust of life,—ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Elsewhere he says: If you are making choice of a physician be sure you get one with a cheerful and serene countenance.

      Is not a jolly physician of greater service than his pills? Dr. Marshall Hall frequently prescribed cheerfulness for his patients, saying that it is better than anything to be obtained at the apothecary’s.

      In Western New York, Dr. Burdick was known as the Laughing Doctor. He always presented the happiest kind of a face; and his good humor was contagious. He dealt sparingly in drugs, yet was very successful.

      The London Lancet, the most eminent medical journal in the world, gives the following scientific testimony to the

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