I wasn't on Coach Dale Brown's staff a month when he walked in my office and gave me a copy of "The Art of Living" by Wilferd Peterson. Coach Brown always gave the gift of books and it wasn't lost on me that The Art of Living was my first gift from him. It has long been a favorite of mine from that point and here just a few samples of the wisdom in the book."You cannot climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts."
"The art of common sense is applying the best wisdom we know today based on all our yesterdays."
"The Chinese philosophy Lao-tze listed gentleness as the first quality of greatness."
"Happiness is a state of mind. Lincoln once said: "We are as happy as we make up our minds to be."
"Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do."
"You learn from that great master of imagination Thomas Alva Edison, who when asked the secret of his inventive genius replied, 'I listen from within.'"
"Tomorrow's memory depends upon today's impressions."
"If you make your children happy now," wrote Kate Douglas Wiggin, "you'll make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it."
"The art of progress is the story of man's relentless determination to improve his condition."
"Live by admiration rather than disgust. Judge people by their best, not by their worst."
