By George Matthew Adams

If you were completely understood you would not be worth understanding. In this fact alone lies your greatest latent power, your largest fascination, your surest attraction.

No one ever understood Napoleon, Washington, Lincoln, Emerson, Carlyle. They were too great to be understood.

The essence of littleness is to be understood.

If you were thoroughly understood, no longer would you seek solution to those mysterious forces that drive you on and on. If you were thoroughly understood, no longer would you retain your ability to be a compelling personality. Your life would at once become as a shell at whose tapping would resound hardly more than a hollow murmur.

There is waste in the morbid plaint against being misunderstood. Be happy over what you are - and what you may be.

Glory in your ability to take the scattered and uncollected items of life and character and happily shape them into the understandable and serviceful.

Then you will surely be understood sufficiently to enable you to forget that it is of any value whatsoever to be understood, excepting in a very few things — your desire to be helpful, for instance, and to be some-body.

Nobody fully understands you! Don't you mind,

for no one else was ever fully understood.

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