You can overcome the physical barriers that prevent you from being a success. Activity comes first!

Every soul loves the beauty of activity more than it loves beauty of form; for, in active expression, there is a beauty which has a greater and stronger appeal than the beauty of form.

Do you not prefer the living, romping, active, companionable dog-even though he may not be perfect in form-to the most perfect clay model of a dog any artist ever designed?

As a mother, do you not prefer the active, living child-even if its nose is not perfect- to the most beautifully formed and perfectly featured doll in the world?

And, young man, do you not prefer the living, loving, joyously expressive maid, to the perfect wax figure in the department store window?

It is beauty of expression which we most love! It is beauty of expression which attracts others most!

No matter from what viewpoint you estimate the possibilities and powers of climbing out from under bodily conditions, you are forced to the conclusion that you can free yourself from any and all bodily limitations which seem to prevent you from succeeding.

You may not be able at once to make a hunched back straight and tall; or immediately reform facial features so that they are beautifully symmetrical; but anyone can free himself from any limitation due to imperfections of form!

The face can always be made attractive in expression!

That which attracts is cheer and joy and love. If you train your face to express continually these qualities, it cannot remain unattractive and, even strangers, meeting you for the first time, will think of the cheer and joy you radiate instead of the form of your face.

One of the world's greatest humorists was unattractive of face and deformed of body. Yet, he made himself so happy in living his life, so cheerful, and so joyous, so humorous and so witty, that we loved him. Many went to hear him year after year. Thousands were made happy by his presence, his wit, his humor, his joy, his happiness. He did not change his physical structure greatly, but he overcame its limitations; he climbed out from under the limitations of the condition of his face and body.

Not one of us who knew him thought of his ill-featured face! Not one of us remembers his deformed body! But, his gloriously illumined face-his expression of cheer, joy and love-will stay with us always.

All limitations of form-whether of features of face, or of other parts of the body -can be overcome by expression.

When I first knew Paul, he was eighteen. His hands were then badly stiffened and crippled. They had been injured in a factory machine. Afterwards, he became a rapid typist; then he learned to play the piano so that we listened with amazement and joy. Next, he trained his hands to do skillful coin and card tricks. And, later, he held audiences spellbound-by using his hands marvelously, to express the emotions of the soul.

And, as in many other cases, his active use of his hands, trained to express what no other hands had ever so dramatically expressed, actually changed them, so that the hands, themselves, once more became beautiful in form!

You can overcome any limitation due to a bodily condition, no matter what it is!

The power to do so resides in you!

Will you take the time and make the effort?

If so, you can be what you will to be!

An acorn and a good sized pebble nestled close underground.

" You're silly to try to be a tree," said the pebble, " why, you're no bigger than I am, and a tree is a million times larger. You're only a little nut! You're not even shaped like a tree! Why do you think you can be one?"

"I desire to," said the acorn.

"What's desire?" scoffed the pebble.

"A desire is the prophecy of what you can be," said the acorn. "A sunbeam told me that last summer."

" You're just a silly dreamer," sneered the pebble.

And the pebble remained a pebble, and the acorn became a tree!

-BROWN LANDONE