Hello dear Good Morning World readers,Thank you for your email comments and so happy you are reading Most of All They
Taught Me Happiness as I post Robert's words in his well read copy. Each time he reread it, he would note the date and location and always write his thoughts in the margins.
In the Foreword he underlined the last paragraph on page 15, written by his life long friend,
Norman Cousins..in 1978
The paragraph begins
"Civilization gets its basic energy not only from its resources, but also from its hopes.....and the last line..It is a privilege to be able to introduce an open man, one who opens himself fully to his readers in the pages that follow."And Robert wrote
"How right he was, how prophetic, I still consider him, remember him more than ever when I reread this text on 19 September 2006, 28 years later, after speeches I delivered in Northern California on Happiness."And on the first empty page across from Thank You, Dr. Coue page 19, Robert wrote:
READ THIS EVERDAY:
IMPORTANT (in his red pen)
Every morning
Every evening
Self-confidence
Good confidence
and happiness
are the secrets to my wonderful, happy life
Smile every day, every hour to every person.
And at the top of chapter 1 Thank You, Dr. Coue page 19, Robert wrote
"Every day in every way, I am getting better and better"His first chapter has more sentences underlined, notes and x's next to the paragraphs then any other chapter. On page 21 Robert underlined the third sentence
"I have instinctively followed Dr. Coue's philosophy of optimism and self-reliance all my life."And he did. When sitting in our front garden, as neighbors walked by. they would stop and talk to my dear Robert and he always had his harmonica in his pocket and played ODE TO JOY to the young and old. His Bench of Dreams hold his energy and our neighbors carry his love and optimism as do our faithful readers of Good Morning World.
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