Thoughts I Met On the Highway

By Ralph Waldo Trine

Ralph Waldo Trine was an important New Thought writer. Trine is often cited as the inspiration for Napoleon Hill's 'Think and Grow Rich'. As with all New Thought writers, Trine's work helped to shape the current crop of self-help books, such as 'The Secret', 'The Power of Positive Thinking', and 'The Law of Attraction'. The wisdom of the ages can be found between these pages!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dancing Unicorn Books
• Release date: May 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781515414421

Ralph Waldo Trine

Ralph Waldo Trine (October 26, 1866 – November 8, 1958) was an American philosopher, author, and teacher. He wrote many books on the New Thought movement. Trine was a close friend of Henry Ford and had several conversations with him about success in life. Trine attended several different colleges and universities. His studies were on writing, journalism, history, and social science. He took up work as a journalist and eventually became an author of many books in philosophy.

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Thoughts I Met On the Highway

By Ralph Waldo Trine

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Thoughts I Met On the Highway

Thoughts are forces—like builds like and like attracts like. Thoughts of strength both build strength from within and attract it from without. Thoughts of weakness actualize weakness from within and attract it from without. Courage begets strength, fear begets weakness. And so courage begets success, fear begets failure.

Any way the old world goes

Happy be the weather!

With the red thorn or the rose

Singin’ all together!

Don’t you see that sky o’ blue!

Good Lord painted it for you

Reap the daisies in the dew

Singin’ all together!

Springtime sweet, an’ frosty fall

Happy be the weather!

Earth has gardens for us all,

Goin’ on together.

Sweet the labor in the light,

To the harvest’s gold and white—

Till the toilers say Good night,

Singin’ all together!

There is no quality that exerts more good, is of greater service to all mankind during the course of the ordinary life, than the mind and the heart that goes out in an all-embracing love for all, that is the generator and the circulator of a genuine, hearty, wholesome