"Your Forces and How to Use Them, a book by Christian D. Larson."

“Complete Collection of Christian D. Larson Books”

“Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.”

“It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.”

“What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.”

“Everything that promotes the welfare, the advancement and the growth of the individual is right. And everything that interferes with the welfare, the advancement and the growth of the individual is wrong. This is the only natural standard by which we can judge what is right and what is wrong. It is therefore the true standard, being based upon the nature, the principle and the purpose of life itself.”

“The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life...”