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578 words essay on The Secret of Happiness. It is said, “Laugh and the world laughs with you. If you weep, you weep alone”. So, the secret of happiness lies in having an aptitude for happiness.The aptitude can be developed through training of the mind by constantly reminding it of the positive as­pects of life. One and the same occasion or incident can be interpreted by two different persons in two different ways – positively by the one and negatively by the other. The former is bound to be happy; the latter cannot escape melancholy.Browning has said “God’s in this heaven and all’s right with the world”. This is high optimism which is the genesis of true happiness. This universe is very vast and varied. Nature spreads all around us…

368 words essay on A Visit to a Hospital (free to read). A hospital is not much of a place worth- visiting. But sometimes circumstances force us to do so.It so happened with me last week. One of my friends had been admitted there. He had been suffering from some infection. The private doctors could not treat him properly.As I reached the hospital, I found a great rush of visitors whose relatives had been admitted there for one or the other ailment. Every ward was overcrowded. Pri­vate rooms were all occupied. My friend was in the general ward, which was badly con­gested. Image Source : financialservicescommission.files.wordpress.com ADVERTISEMENTS: Fortunately, I found that my friend had almost recovered and would be discharged in a day or two. He was now allowed to…

342 words short essay on Pleasures of Reading OR Value of Books (free to read). Books are a great treasure house of knowledge. They are the living example of Titian’s march on the path to higher and higher civilization.The react men, who died long ago, live in their books. We feel their very personality and existence when we read their books. We feel as if they were convers­ing with us. As Milton has said, “A great book is the precious life blood of a master spirit.”Books not only store civilization but also carry it forward. All coming generations get the light of knowledge from the books written by their ancestors and try to improve upon that knowledge. Civilization cannot make much headway in a country where there are not many…

A hospitable man is one who freely admits to his house friends and, in some cases, strangers also, gives them food and lodging when necessary, and provides them with entertainment. He is usually of a kind and generous nature, and by his benevo­lent disposition promotes social intercourse and adds to the plea­sures of his fellowmen.Though hospitality is a virtue that can be practiced with magnificence only by the rich, yet it is also found in a simple and untainted form among the poor, who show an amazing willingness to share their scanty pittances with others who at the time happen to be less fortunate than themselves. ADVERTISEMENTS: The poor urchin, who shares his loaf of bread with another, stands out as an example of the truest and most unselfish hospitality.Among…

Gratitude implies thankfulness or an appreciation of benefits conferred together with a desire, when practicable, to return those benefits.It should be distinguished from thanks, which is too often a matter of words, and not accompanied by a feeling of thankfulness or by those actions which indicate a grateful mind. The grateful man feels joy at the kindness of his benefactor and cultivates a respect that is akin to love.In almost all the relations of ordinary life the feelings of gratitude should be aroused. The child owes thanks to his parents for food, clothes, education and tender care; the scholar to his teachers for the training of his intelligence; personal friends to one another for mutual services. ADVERTISEMENTS: The frequent use of the phrase, “Thank you,” though often not more than…

It has been said that a man is known by the company he keeps. If he is constantly seen with men who are considered frivolous and idle, others will look upon him also as frivolous and idle, and with good reason.The serious, hardworking man, with a definite aim in life, has little time to spare for frivolity, nor can he have much sympathy or admiration for those who fritter away their lives in senseless pleasures. ADVERTISEMENTS: No one expects to find a reli­gious man constantly associating with and taking delight in the company of those who scoff at religion. Their views, on a subject which to him is sacred and all-important, must be extremely galling; their sneers, their ribald jokes and sinful ways must con­stantly wound.On so many occasions he…

So many books on Memory Cultivation litter the book-shops nowadays that I have sometimes thought of writing one on the now almost forgotten art of Forgetting. Strangely enough, people who cheerfully admit that they have no memory will look at you askance if you so much as breathe a word about their lack of judgment.For can we remember all the things that have come within the gamut of our learning and experience? Decidedly not. We know from hard experience how soon we forget the things we learned for our examinations. ADVERTISEMENTS: The normal, ordinary man forgets things often; luckily for him and his sanity. The man who tries to remember things always is unfortunate; that may drive him mad.Now the art of forgetting is a blessing in disguise. Take the…

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in trifles. Like benevolence on a larger scale, it includes a feeling in the mind as well as the performance of those outward actions by which that feeling is manifested. The internal feeling, which is an essential part of true politeness, is the same all over the world, however much its manifestations may differ.It is the desire to put those whom we meet perfectly at their ease, and save them from every kind of petty discomfort and annoyance. Benevolence in its ordinary sense implies love of our fellow-men and a desire to do all we can to promote their permanent happiness.The limited part of benevolence called politeness requires only an inclination to make them happy temporarily, while they are in our presence, and…

Essay on the Theories of Socialisation – (a) C.H. Cooley’s Theory of ‘Looking-Glass Self’: The ‘self’ might be regarded as the internalised object representing one’s own personality.Where does this self arise? Are we born with it? Is it something we have to learn to recognise and to know? Is it something that the individual brings with him as we confront society? Or is it some­thing that he receives from society as a gift of the confrontation? A brilliant American social psy­chologist Charles Horton Cooley made some sustained attempts to find answers to these questions.C.H. Cooley has placed before us two primary propositions – (i) The mind is social, and (ii) Society is mental. Of the two, the first one has impressed a good number of sociologists. He wrote in his…

We are told in one of Esop’s fables how the hare and the tortoise once agreed to run a race against each other. The swift- footed hare ridiculed as preposterous the idea that he could possibly be beaten by his opponent. At the beginning of the race he started off at a great speed and soon left the tortoise far behind.Presently, looking round and finding that his adversary was out of sight, he thought he might as well lie down and have a sleep, and did so. Meanwhile the tortoise had been plodding steadily on. After a long time he came up to the place where the hare was sleeping, and went on past his adversary until he was near the goal. ADVERTISEMENTS: At this point the hare, waking up,…