Beautiful Thoughts Compiled by Decorations by Published by FOREWORD TH HE desire of happiness, beyond all doubt, is a natural desire," says Henry van Dyke in "Joy and Power." But, what constitutes happiness? Where shall we seek happiness? How can we find happiness? Can everyone be happy? Is happiness a duty? These, and others questions are answered in the following quotations, which have been gleaned from more than one hundred authors. It is hoped that they may bring cheer and encouragement to all who may chance to read these messages. A beautiful thought is given for each day of the year, which shows us we can be happy if we only cultivate "the seeing eye and the feeling heart." Helen Hunt Jackson says: "Cheeriness is a thing to be more profoundly grateful for than all that genius ever inspired or talent ever accomplished. Next best to natural, spontaneous cheeriness is deliberate, intended and persistent cheeriness, which we can create, can cultivate and can so foster and cherish that after a few years the world M233907 will never suspect that it was not an hereditary gift." Surely, everyone desires happiness, but all do not see that joy unspeakable is always close at hand, only waiting to be grasped. "There is ever a song somewhere, my dear, Be the skies above or dark or fair, There is ever a song that our hearts may hear There is ever a song somewhere, my dear There is ever a song somewhere." -James Whitcomb Riley. January FIRST The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy. -George Hodges. SECOND If a man is unhappy, this must be his own fault; for God made all men to be -Epictetus. happy. THIRD Happiness is one of the greatest things in the world, and joy is indispensable to any or every high state of attainment. Therefore, whoever can produce happiness or give entertainment is doing a work that is equal in every respect to any of the so-called great works in human life. -Christian D. Larson. FOURTH "With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun." |
