Think and Thank

The words “Think and Thank” are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed on our hearts, too: “Think and Thank.”

Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons(恩惠) and bounties(慷慨).

How To Stop Worrying and Start Living

- Chapter 37 -

Chapter 15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?"Advantage of Humanity"

About ninety per cent of the things in our lives are right and about ten per cent are wrong.

If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the ninety per cent that are right and ignore the ten per cent that are wrong.

If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers(胃溃疡), all we have to do is to concentrate on the ten per cent that are wrong and ignore the ninety per cent that are glorious.

Would you sell both your eyes for a billion dollars?

What would you take for your two legs?

Your hands?

Your hearing?

Your children?

Your family?

Add up your assets, and you will find that you won’t sell what you have for all the gold ever amassed(积累) by the Rockefellers, the Fords and the Morgans combined.

But do we appreciate all this?

Ah, no.

As Schopenhauer said: “We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.

If you don’t stop your growling and grumbling, you will lose not only your business, but also your health, your home, and your friends!

Think and Thank