Words to Live by According
To Robert Louis Stevenson:
Statement #1:
Make up your Mind to be Happy,...
Learn to Find Pleasure in...
Simple Things!;
Statement #2:
Make the Best of your Circumstances...
Everyone has problems! The Trick is to...
Make Laughter Outweigh the Tears!;
Statement #3:
Don't Take Yourself to Seriously, Don't...
Think that Somehow you should be Protected...
from Misfortunes that Befall Others!;
Statement #4:
You can't Please Everybody! Don't...
Let Criticism Worry you!;
Statement #5:
Don't Let your Neighbor Set your...
Standards! Be Yourself!;
Statement #6:
Do the Things you Enjoy Doing...
but Stay Out of Debt!;
Statement #7:
Don't Borrow Trouble! Imaginary burdens...
are Harder to Bear than the Actual One's!;
Statement #8:
Hate poisons the Soul, so don't...
Carry grudges, and avoid People who
Make you Unhappy!;
Statement #9:
Have many Interests. If you can't...
Travel read about New Places!;
Statement #10:
Don't hold Post-Mortems! Don't Spend...
Your Life brooding over Sorrows...
and Mistakes!;
Statement #11:
Do what you Can for those Less...
Fortunate than Yourself!;
Statement #12:
Keep Busy at Something! A Busy person never...
has the Time to be Unhappy!;
It's Only a Pin:
Two fond parents Watch their boy...
Where he Stands!
Apart from his...
Comrades Tonight!
and see Placed on his Camp-Battered...
Tunic, a Badge....
An Eagle! the Emblem of Right!;
It seems just a few Short Months...
have Passed! Since he Joined with the...
Youngsters next door! How proud
they were then of their Tenderfoot Pin! As...
They were Told of the Message it Bore!;
But the years have Gone by as he...
struggled along! To Learn what the...
Scout Law is all about! He practiced them...
Daily, the Oath and the Law! Until now...
He is an Eagle Scout!;
You may Smile in your worldly Wisdom...
at this and say, "Why its Only a Pin!"...
but I'll Tell you, n Honors he will...
Gain as a Man will Mean Quite...
as Much to Him!;
The Red, the White, and the Blue of...
the Ribbon you See are the Symbols...
of Honor and Truth! He has Learned...
how to Value these fine Attributes...
in the glorious Days of his Youth!;
And the out-flinging Wings of the Eagle...
that Rests on the Breast of this...
Knight of Today! are the...
Wings which will Lift him above...
Petty Deeds, and Guide...
Him Along the Right Way!;
Yes, it's Only a Pin, just an...
Eagle Scout Badge but...
the Heart beneath it Beats True!
and will Throb to the Lasst...
for the Things that are Good!
A Lesson for Me...
and for You!;
have Passed! Since he Joined with the...
Youngsters next door! How proud
they were then of their Tenderfoot Pin! As...
They were Told of the Message it Bore!;
But the years have Gone by as he...
struggled along! To Learn what the...
Scout Law is all about! He practiced them...
Daily, the Oath and the Law! Until now...
He is an Eagle Scout!;
You may Smile in your worldly Wisdom...
at this and say, "Why its Only a Pin!"...
but I'll Tell you, n Honors he will...
Gain as a Man will Mean Quite...
as Much to Him!;
The Red, the White, and the Blue of...
the Ribbon you See are the Symbols...
of Honor and Truth! He has Learned...
how to Value these fine Attributes...
in the glorious Days of his Youth!;
And the out-flinging Wings of the Eagle...
that Rests on the Breast of this...
Knight of Today! are the...
Wings which will Lift him above...
Petty Deeds, and Guide...
Him Along the Right Way!;
Yes, it's Only a Pin, just an...
Eagle Scout Badge but...
the Heart beneath it Beats True!
and will Throb to the Lasst...
for the Things that are Good!
A Lesson for Me...
and for You!;
