Making friends with our nerves / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924
Date:
1926
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Making friends with our nerves / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    things generally, and that your life is becom¬ ing a bore, you may be pretty sure that you need more sleep, that you need country or out¬ door exercise. If you get these, you will find that the old enthusiasm will return. A few days of exercise in the country, rambling over the hills and meadows, will erase the dark pic¬ tures which haunt you, and will restore buoy¬ ancy to your animal spirits. No man is in an absolutely normal condi¬ tion until he enjoys bare living, and feels that existence itself is a precious boon. No one is normal who does not feel thankful, every day, that he is alive, and that he can think and act with vigor and effectiveness. Oh, to be strong; to feel the thrill of life in every nerve and fiber in middle life and old age as in youth; to exult in bare existence as do the young lambs and calves which chase one another over the fields and meadows and pas¬ tures; to exult in mere living as boys do when they glide over the fields of ice in the crisp air of winter! There is many a young man possessing superb natural faculties, education and train¬ ing, who are yet making no effective use of