Success
You have but little conception of the possibilities which
lie sleeping within you, awaiting but the awakening hand of vision to arouse you,
and you will never have a better conception of those possibilities
unless you develop sufficient Self-confidence to lift you above the
commonplace influences of your present environment.
A HOME is something that cannot be bought. You can buy house but only a woman can make of it a home. The human mind is a marvellous, mysterious piece of machinery, a fact of which I was reminded a few months ago when I picked up Emerson's Essays and re-read his essay on Spiritual Laws. A strange thing happened. I saw in that essay, which I had read scores of times previously, much that I had never noticed before.
I saw more in this essay than I had seen during previous readings because the unfoldment of my mind since the last reading had prepared me to interpret more. The human mind is constantly unfolding, like the petals of a flower, until it reaches the maximum of development.
What this maximum is, where it ends, or whether it ends at all or not, are unanswerable questions, but the degree of unfoldment seems to vary according to the nature of the individual and the degree to which he keeps his mind at work. A mind that is forced or coaxed into analytical thought every day seems to keep on unfolding and developing greater powers of interpretation.
Down in Louisville, Kentucky, lives Mr. Lee Cook, a man who has
practically no legs and has to wheel himself around on a cart. In spite
of the fact that Mr. Cook has been without legs since birth, he is the
owner of a great industry and a millionaire through his own efforts.
He has proved that a man can get along very well without legs if he
has a well-developed Self-confidence.
In the city of New York one may see a strong able-bodied and able headed young man, without legs, rolling himself down Fifth Avenue every afternoon, with cap in hand, begging for a living. His head is perhaps as sound and as able to think as the average. This young man could duplicate anything that Mr. Cook, of Louisville, has done, if he thought of himself as Mr. Cook thinks of himself.