The Thread of Permanence By William Zorach It is strange how certain things make a great impression on us in childhood. I remember these verses by Longfellow: Life is real! Life is earnest! And the graves is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust retur
How to Refill an Empty Life by Albert J Nesbitt One day about fifteen years ago I suddenly came face to face with myself and realized there was something quite empty about my life. My friends and associates perhaps didnt see it. By the generally acce
I Call Things As I See Them by Ralph Pinelli An umpire has to make instant decisions. Ive learned to call things as I see them. This helps me make a quick reply to such an important and personal question as my belief. My philosophy of life is simple,
A Shining Day Will Come by Saul K Padover A candid statement of faith becomes, for me, a concentrated spiritual autobiography. My fundamental beliefs are the products of three converging influences that have been silently at work within my personalit
Maxis's Recipe for Happiness by Meredith Willson I guess the creed of all human beings embraces the desire to leave their mark on the moral world, when they pass to the immortal one. Maybe this is even the strongest of all urges of the human soul. Ma
I Don`t Play to the Grandstand By Bobby Doerr It seems to me that what any man's beliefs are depends upon how he spends his life. I've spent a good part of mine as a professional baseball player and the game that I play for a living is naturally a ve
Give Part of Yourself Away By DR.HAROLD TAYLOR We are living in one of those periods in human history which are marked by recolutionary changes in sll of man's ideas and values. It is a time when every one of us must look within himself to find what
Walk Clean Around the Hill By Darryl F. Zanuck Now that I can look back across the years, from the so-called vantage point of experience and two world wars, extensive travel and contact with many outstanding personalities, it gives me a great deal of
You Have to Water the Plant by Leland Stowe For the things I believe in, I must give a reporters answer. Like everyone else, its out of my own experience. For twenty-four years Ive been up to my neck in the worlds troubles; meeting people in dozens o
The Greeks Had an Answer by Gilbert Murray In trying to say what I really believe, I cannot recite one of the traditional creeds, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, or the like. Most of us are born into one of them, and which it is depends simply o
The Debt of the Artist by Dimitri Mitropoulos Very early in my life, an important event took place: in my impressionable and youthful years, I discovered the personality of St. Francis. Since that time, my main ambition has been canalized into a stro
Philosophy from a Tugboat BY GEORGE YOUNG ONE NIGHT many years ago I was on the bridge of a ship that passed one of our large cities on a quiet night I saw its lights reflected in the sky and heard the rumblings of the city's noises. As I looked to m
Growing in the Middle Ground by Anne Phipps I believe that my beliefs are changing. Nothing is positive. Perhaps Im in a stage of metamorphosis, which will one day have me emerging complete, sure of everything. Perhaps, I shall spend my life searchin
I Live Four Lives at a Time by Alice Thompson Everyone who has past his first few birthdays has some kind of guideline or things in which he believes. Its hard to put them in words that mean anything. I live a life of four dimensionsa wife, a mother,
A Reporter Quotes His Sources by William L Shirer Its rather difficult in these noisy, confusing, nerve-racking days to achieve the peace of mind in which to pause for a moment to reflect on what you believe in. Theres so little time and opportunity
I Never Stopped Believing by Eva Saxl I believe that it is important to be brought up with a firm belief in the good. I was fortunate in this respect. My parents not only gave me a happy home, but they had me study half a dozen foreign languages and
Suffering Is Self-Manufactured by Leon J Saul I believe the immediate purpose of life is to live, to survive. All known forms of life go through life cycles. The basic plan is birth, maturing, mating, reproducing, death. Thus, the immediate purpose o
I Do a Lot of Office Fishing by Richard Salmon Some years ago, I started to look at the stars through high-powered binoculars and began reading books written by astronomers for people like me. I became an entranced stargazer for a while. The men who
Don't Step Out of Character BY VIRGINIA SAL! ON A PLANE flying from Chicago to New York, my seat companion was a young girl who gave me a friendly smile as I sat beside her, but whose young face showed great sadness. Hesitantly, she told me she was o
Free Minds and Hearts at Work by Jackie Robinson At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion, when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else. T