Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success

James Allen

• Publisher: Light House
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781528713672
• eBook ISBN: 9781528788083
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Self-help books aim to help the reader with problems, offering them clear and effective guidance on how obstacles can be passed and solutions found, especially with regard to common issues and day-to-day life. Such books take their name from the 1859 best-selling "Self-Help" by Samuel Smiles, and are often also referred to as "self-improvement" books. This particular book concentrates on the fundamentals of achieving happiness and success in one's life, helping the reader understand what should be done and avoided in day-to-day life in order to live a rewarding and fruitful life. This volume will appeal to those seeking to improve their quality of life, and it would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf. James Allen (1864–1912) was a British writer most famous for his inspirational poetry and being an early leader of the self-help movement. "As a Man Thinketh" (1903), his best known work, has been a significant source of inspiration for many self-help authors.

FOUNDATION
STONES
to
HAPPINESS
AND SUCCESS

By

JAMES ALLEN

First published in 1913

This edition published by Read Books Ltd.
Copyright © 2019 Read Books Ltd.
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reproduced or copied in any way without

the express permission of the publisher in writing

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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More Good is the recompense of Good ;

More Virtue is the reward of Virtue ;

More capacity is the crown of use.

In Goodness, Virtue, and the wise use of all our power is all happiness.

Other forms of happiness are fleeting,

But this abides, and does not pass away.

Contents

EDITOR’S PREFACE

FOREWORD

RIGHT PRINCIPLES

SOUND METHODS

TRUE ACTIONS

TRUE SPEECH

EQUAL-MINDEDNESS

GOOD RESULTS

"It is not easy to be cheerful when everything one undertakes seems to go wrong, especially after one has done his very best. When business enterprise that looked so promising ends in disaster; when your plans for going to college- plans which is has taken years of toil and sacrifice to carry to the point of success - are suddenly overturned by some unforeseen occurence - these, or any of the thousand and one disappointments. great and small, which come to the most sheltered lives, to the greatest of fortune's favorites, are trials to one's soul. But what of that? Are we to sit down and weep and wail and bemoan our hard luck because things go wrong? That is the easiest thing to do, to be sure. The ignoble thing usually seems easier to do than the noble thing. But what of the results? If you rise superior to your disappointment, whatever it may be, you are adding a hundred per cent to your power to conquer future difficulties"

ORISON SWETT MARDEN.

EDITOR’S PREFACE

This is one of the last MSS. written by James Allen. Like all his works it is eminently practical. He never wrote theories, or for the sake of writing, or to add another to his many books; but he wrote when he had a message, and it became a message only when he had lived it out in his own life, and knew that it was good. Thus he wrote facts, which he had proven by practice.

To live out the teaching of this book faithfully in every detail of life will lead one to more than happiness and success — even to Blessedness, Satisfaction and Peace.

LILY L. ALLEN
“Bryngoleu,”
Ilfracombe,
England.

FOREWORD

How does a man begin the building of a house? He first secures a plan o...

Table of contents

• EDITOR’S PREFACE
• FOREWORD
• RIGHT PRINCIPLES
• SOUND METHODS
• TRUE ACTIONS
• TRUE SPEECH
• EQUAL-MINDEDNESS
• GOOD RESULTS