By George Matthew Adams

"Next to winning yourself, is to lose to a delightful companion."

This was the remark I overheard on coming into the clubhouse after a wonderful day at golf. And much as I had enjoyed the day, that remark was worth more to me than all the rest put together. And it has come back to me time and again. Now I give it to you.

Next to -

I wonder if there is not packed into these little words some of the finest suggestive possibilities for happiness in all this life.

Let's see:

Next to - winning yourself, to see somebody else win.

Next to - breathing life and spirit and wonder and imagination and inspiration into the heart of some instrument of music yourself, to drink in the art of a master.

Next to - being a great leader, to be a worthy follower.

Next to - writing some great book or painting some great masterpiece, to interpret rightly what the writer or artist has felt; and thus, in living, to make his work a thing of satisfaction and permanence.

Next to - being helped, for you to help.

Next to - being loved, for you to love.

Next to - grandly succeeding, for you to help

bring success to someone else!

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By George Matthew Adams

One strong point about Coming Back is that you are acquainted with that part over which you have to travel again to the point where you began to slip. And nearly always the impetus thus gained on the Coming Back sends one further on than before.

The great thing about age is that it teaches us something every day. And the wiser we get, the more happy we are able to be. For happiness is intelligence.

I always feel just a little sorry for the man who has never slipped - who has, therefore, never had a chance to Come Back. I think of how much he misses in feeling for the fellow who has slipped - and who has gloriously Come Back — only to face ahead.

Fail a dozen times. Be defeated on a score of counts. Lose out on the things that your heart is most set upon winning if Fate dictates that way with you.

But then Come Back - with fire in your eyes, with courage burning red hot in your veins and with a jaw set for "game."

One drawback to the one who has gone back is the fear to face those who watched him as he went by.

But don't let that trouble you. Just tell yourself that you are made of sterner stuff — and that you know how to Come Back.

And think of the many great things that you are able to do that nobody has yet done.

Oh yes, it's great to keep Coming Back - I mean,

going forward!

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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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