To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love
and to work and to play and to look up at the stars---
to be satisfied with your possessions
but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them---
to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness,
and to fear nothing except cowardice---
to be governed by your admiration's rather than by your disgusts;
to covet nothing that is your neighbour's except his kindness of heart
and gentleness of manners---
to think seldom of your enemies,
often of your friends,
and every day of Christ;
and to spend as much time as you can,
with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors---
these are little guide-posts on the foot-path to peace.

Henry Van Dyke