
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part I: Hard Times
The Liberty Manifesto (1993)
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part I: Hard Times
“Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
Variant: It doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optismism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself
Source: Doktor Sleepless, Volume 1: Engines of Desire
Often misattributed to Friedrich Nietzsche.
Source: As quoted from “Interview with an Immoral,” Arthur Gordon, Reader’s Digest (July 1959). Reprinted in the Kipling Society journal, “Six Hours with Rudyard Kipling”, Vol. XXXIV. No. 162 (June, 1967) pp. 5-8. Interview took place in June, 1935 https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/pdf/KJ162.pdf
Context: Looking back, I think he knew that in my innocence I was eager to love everything and please everybody, and he was trying to warn me not to lose my own identity in the process. Time after time he came back to this theme. " The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
Source: Lilith A and Lilith, 1896: A Duplex