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Today's reading was edited and adapted from

Ambition and Success by Orison Sweat Martin, published in 1919.

Everywhere we see people who have been robbed of their purpose.

They are ambitionless, restless, mere shadows of their possible selves.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox gives some advice that the dissatisfied restless, mere shadows of their possible selves.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox gives some advice that the dissatisfied and unhappy person may heed to advantage.

She says,

Do not waste your vitality in hating your life.

Find something in it which is worth liking and enjoying,

while you keep steadily at your work to make it what you desire.

Be happy over something every day, for the brain is a thing of habit, and you cannot teach it to be happy in a moment if you allow it to be miserable for years. To hold the conviction that you are in the world

for a purpose is a powerful tonic. To know that you are here to help, that you have a part to perform

which no one else can play, because everyone else has their own part to fill in the great drama of life.

If you do not play your role, there will thus be something lacking in the world.

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