- If you can start the day without caffeine.
- If you can get going without pep pills.
- If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains.
- If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles.
- If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it.
- If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time.
- If you can overlook it when those you love take it out on you when through no fault of yours, something goes wrong.
- If you can take critisism and blame without resentment.
- If you can ignore a friends limited education and never correct him.
- If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend.
- If you can face the world without lies and deceit.
- If you can conquer tension without medical help.
- If you can relax without liquer.
- If you can sleep without the aid of drugs.
- If you can say honestly that deep in your heart you have no prejudice against creed, colour, religion or politics.
- THEN MY FRIEND, YOU ARE ALMOST AS GOOD AS YOUR DOG !