Frank Crane
31 quotes
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."
"How to control my temper."
"How to use my imagination so as to strengthen me instead of making me weak."
"How to improve and toughen my will."
"How to find pleasure in common things."
"How to get joy out of nature."
"How to curb my selfishness and develop my altruism."
"How to work so as to make work a pleasure."
"How to be a good fellow without being a fool."
"How to get stimulation out of simple food and water drink, and not alcohol."
"How to control my sex instinct so as to make it conduce my permanent happiness and not to disease, mental misery, and the wrecking of my career."
"How to make friends and keep them."
"How to handle enemies and those who wrong or offend me."
"How to get along with relatives and all those persons with whom I come in contact."
"How to value my own self-esteem more than the praise of others."
"God always whispers. At least to the soul. He may thunder to nations and speak to armies in the lightning. But to the individual His message is not in the mighty wind, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but in the still, small voice."
"Go into the silence. Give your soul time to calm. Let the hurly-burly die down, the crash of passion, the struggle of doubt, the pain of failure, the ranklings of wrong, the clamor of ambition. Cease from self. Be still."
"No man can tell what the whisper says. Each soul must hear for itself."
"No one thought in all the world is of more value to put life and cheer and power into a man than the thought that the great Being who made this universe is FOR us and not AGAINST US."
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"Frank Crane, Four Minute Essays, Volume V (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc., 1919)."
"Frank Crane, Four Minute Essays, Volume VII (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc., 1919)."
"Dr. Frank Crane, Dr Crane Says, "Just for Today" (Syndicated newspaper column published May 29, 1921)"
"Dr. Frank Crane, Fear (New York: The Man Message Corporation, 1921)"
"Dr. Frank Crane, Everyday Wisdom, (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Copyright, 1927, Dr. Frank Crane)."