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The Sun shines ever behind the
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If you are morose, moody, or despondent; if you have the habit of worrying or frétting about things, or any other fault that hinders your growth, you will hever rid yourself of it by brooding over it. Nothing is more certain than, that nursing such feelings aggravates them. But if the sufferer will try to change the current of his thought by calling up some happy memory, looking on some beautiful object in art or in nature, reading from some helpful, uplifting book, the "blue"s will soon vanish.
Sunshine will take the place of gloom, and joy of sadness. As Mrs. Wiggs says "The way to get cheerful is to smile when you feel bad, to think about somebody else's headache when your own is “most bursting", to keep on believing, the sun is shining when the cloud is thick enough to cut".
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The cure for bad moods is to summon good ones to fill one's whole mind and thought. It requires a strong effort of will, but the only way to conquer any fault is to think persistently of the opposite virtue, and to practise it until it is yours by the force of habit. Hold just the opposite thought from that which depresses you, and you will naturally reverse the mood. The imagination has great power to change an unpleasant thought or experience. :::
Light, joy, gladness and harmony are your best protectors, discord, darkness, and sickness cannot exist where they are.
- Orison Swett Marden
