Dr. Edward Howard Griggs (1868–1951) was an American lecturer and educator who taught at Indiana University and later Leland Stanford University. A public speaker, he is said to have given 13,000 lectures.
Born in Owatonna, Minnesota, Griggs wrote on numerous subjects, including education, philosophy, culture, biology, and statesmanship. His works include A Book of Meditations (1903,) The Use of the Margin (1907,) The New Humanism (1913,) Moral Education (1916,) For What Do We Live (1922,) and Blossomed Hours: Book of the Mind and the Heart (1922.)
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Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one’s attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
—Edward Howard Griggs
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties
One should have the greatest simplicity of physical habits combined with the largest flexibility. How hard the combination is to attain, and yet how important to a life at once sane and full! It is the same problem present everywhere in living—the problem of unstable equilibrium—of an adjustment that is ever in process and never crystallized.
—Edward Howard Griggs
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