Nothing is small or petty in this life…

The Last Load, 1966, by Dale Nichols (Thank you Mme Scherzo)

“No man can be happy, efficient, creative at his work when he is unhappy with his situation and lives for another day.  All of us are too prone to postpone our living until some nebulous time when “our ship will come in.”  Nothing is so apt to inject dissatisfaction into our lives as this wasteful attitude toward the most perishable of all things we know – time.  Today, this very day, is the most important time of all, for what we do today determines what we will be tomorrow.   Therefore turn all your attention to your labors of the moment, absorb yourself, take your satisfactions from each thing you do, however humble in your mind.  Nothing is small or petty in this life.  The massive door of a vault swings on the apex of a tiny jewel, and men have become great through learning how to do well the lowliest of jobs.

– U.S. Anderson, Three Magic Words
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Related U.S. Andersen Posts:

• Most people only exist, never truly are at all… (davidkanigan.com)
• The law of life is this: All things both good and evil are constructed from an image held in mind (davidkanigan.com)
• You do not achieve your goals simply by wanting it… (davidkanigan.com)