Rules for a Perfect Day

Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

~ Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940)

Rules for a Perfect Day

Just for Today I will try to strengthen my mind by reading something that requires effort, thought, and concentration.

Just for Today I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out.

Just for Today I will do a task that needs to be done but which I have been putting off. I will do it as an exercise in will power.

Just for Today I will dress as becomingly as possible, talk low, act courteously, be liberal with praise, and criticize not one bit nor find fault with anything.

Just for Today I will have a quiet half hour all by myself and relax. In this half hour sometime I will think of God so as to get more perspective in my life.

Just for Today I will be unafraid. Especially, I will not be afraid to be happy, to enjoy what is beautiful, to love, and to believe that those I love, love me.

~ Author Unknown

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