JUST BEING HAPPY d Little Book^, of Tiappu Thoughts Edited by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER Just Being Ijappy BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR f Wish You Joy, Hand Colored Edition . . $1.00 I Wish You Joy, Printed in Colors 50 AS EDITOR The Book of Good Cheer 50 From Me to You 50 A Plate of Toasts 50 Just Being Happy 50 At all bookstores or sent postpaid on receipt of price P. F. VOLLAND & COMPANY CHICAGO JUST BEING HAPPY Ct Little Book of Happy Thoughts ^Edited byjg| Edwin Osgood Greyer Published by PF.Volland & Company Chicago ^1 Copyright 1912 EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON (All Rights Reserved) £c:.A314894 Just Being Ijappy t&* *i* ^* ON THE TRAIL OF HAPPINESS #J^f HE most crowded Trail in all the world is that which is %J supposed to lead to Happiness. We all travel it whether we acknowledge the fact or not As the flower seeks the sun, as the bee measures a straight line to the nearest honey, so the heart of man pursues Happiness. This passion for Happiness is as old as man, and even our National Constitution recognizes the "pursuit of Happiness" as an inalienable right. But it takes more than the Constitution to make us happy. The poets and seers of all the ages have tried to solve the riddle and discover to us the things that bring Happiness to the human heart. It is not wealth, or health even, though the latter will help. It is not congenial work, nor yet the love of countless friends. It is not merely serving others, though Emerson once said that "The only way to be happy is to make others so." Millions of people have worn deep the Trail of Happiness; they have lived and struggled and died, seeking this Holy Grail. Not one, however, has yet won the perfect prize. But we are not discouraged! For the Trail is full of sweet surprises, and we are convinced, as Robert Louis Stevenson has said, that "to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." Happiness is undoubtedly the most impregnable fortress within The City of Our Ideals. We know that we shall never be able to capture the fortress itself, yet we travel hopefully, for [si JUST BEING HAPPY we are sure that some day we shall at least stand within the suburbs of our Sacred City — and the suburbs are very pleasant! The editor hopes that this "Little Book of Happy Thoughts" will help to make the journey shorter, the burden lighter and the heart happier for all those upon the trail. If it helps ever so little to solve the riddle, "What is Happiness?" it will have fulfilled a large mission. So let's just try being happy as we jog along together, picking every flower possible by the wayside, for they will not bloom for us again, — E, 0. G. 16} Just Being Rappy t$ t3» Ji TALK HAPPINESS *^JALK happiness. The world is sad enough ^■^ Without your woe. No path is wholly rough. Look for the places that are smooth and clear, And speak of them to rest the weary ear Of earth; so hurt by one continuous strain Of mortal discontent and grief and pain. Talk faith. The world is better off without Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt — If you have faith in God, or man, or self, Say so; if not, push back upon the shelf Of silence all your thoughts till faith shall come; No one will grieve because your lips are dumb. Talk health. The dreary, never-ending tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping on that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words, and make them true. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox [7] J UST BEING HAPPY [APPINESS grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. —Douglas Jerrold ^» ^* %?» IF you want to be happy yourself, make others happy. If you want to make others happy, be first happy yourself. There you have the whole formula. Ossian Lang \p& i2& *2* HCQUIRE the habit of expecting success, or believing in happiness. Nothing succeeds like success; nothing makes happiness like happiness. —Lilian Whiting %2fr %fi& ip^ -#^ON'T never pay t' go lookin' fer trouble — -it's tew easy ^*J t' find. There ain't no sech thing 's trouble 'n this world 'less ye look fer it. Happiness won't hev nuthin' t' dew with a man thet likes trouble. 'Minnit a man stops lookin' fer trouble happiness '11 look fer him. —Irving Bacheller s3& tfW ^v XLL not confer with sorrow Till tomorrow; But Joy shall have her way This very day. __ Tt Bt Aldrich m JUST BEING HAPPY OBEY; be loyal; do your work and do it well. This is the message of Nature, and the man cannot be long unhappy who imitates Nature's examples. —Newell Dwight Hillis *J* <3* $> J ATE used me meanly and I looked at her and laughed, «E* That none might know how bitter was the cup I quaffed ; Along came Joy and paused beside me where I sat, Saying, "I came to see what you were laughing at!" —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. i&Rt %&& i&& *W**Z APPINESS comes not from the power of possession, but J-C from the power of appreciation. Above most other things it is wise to cultivate the powers of appreciation. The greater the number of stops in an organ, the greater its possibilities as an instrument of music. _. fj t jp Sylvester. T5 T5 t^» i*& &?* HE art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. —Henry Ward B etcher i2& v* ^w RUE happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice. % en Jonson JUST BEING HAPPY | HAT ripeness is to the orange, what sweet song is to the lark, what culture and refinement are to the intel- lect, that happiness is to man. —Newell Duight Hillis %2& i&w ^% BAPPINESS, is a condition attained through worthiness. To find your life you must lose it. It is the law and the prophets. —Lilian Whiting %2*> W* 4^* \^'i E were made to radiate the perfume of good cheer and ^A/ happiness as much as a rose was made to radiate its sweetness to every passerby. «£• jm %}& RULES FOR HAPPINESS 30METHING to do, Some one to love, Something to hope for. -Kant v* »5* «3* X5 HE happiness of your life depends upon the character of your thoughts. —Marcus Aurelius [16] JUST BEING HAPPY F 'OR every happy smile, the world Whirls on its way with less of care. %£& *^» «£* O have joy one must share it.- Happiness was born a twin. — Byron t£» «J* «/?* ryou ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. —Josk B iU' xngs & (0* '<&* t0& NEROSITY is the investment from which we clip the coupons of happiness. —Four Track News %6* *£» *£» «J* t&* ta& LESSED are the happiness makers. — Henry Ward Beecher "I^ALF the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of JL—J happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others. —Henry Drummond JUST BEING HAPPY w HAT do we live for if it is not to make life less diffi- cult for others? —George Eliot ^s && ^s BE cheerful. Give this lonesome world a smile. We stay at longest but a little while. Hasten we must, or we shall lose the chance To give the gentle word, the kindly glance. Be sweet and tender — that is doing good ; 'Tis doing what no other kind deed could. t5* «£* 't5* *2^f HE unpardonable sin in a mother is gloom. If you would \J influence your children for good, let your presence radiate smiles. Let your children hear you laugh often; but laugh >J& ris a matter of economy to be happy, to view life and all its conditions from the brightest angle. It enables one to seize life at its best. —Horatio IV. Dresser ft s^S *^5 %£* APPINESS is a perfume you cannot pour on others with- out getting a few drops yourself. '&> t&& &* T5 HE secret of happiness is not In doing what one likes, But in liking what one has to do. — Barrie %$• t£& ?5* <^/HERE is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of \J being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous bene- fits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor. —Robert Louis Stevenson M JUST BEING HAPPY CHEERFUL comrade is better than a waterproof coat and a foot-warmer. —Henry Van Dyke. £ 3 3 CHEERFULNESS and content are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. — diaries Dickens te* e<5* «^» are not simple enough to be happy and to render others so. We lack the singleness of heart and the self-forgetfulness. —Charles Wagner t&& tj* «^» ^r^^UE happiness is to no place confined, %^f But yet is found in a contented mind. •£» t&& i3* HE foundation of abiding happines is one's chosen life vrork. —Newell Dwight Hillis *J& t£» «£* ris the German thinker, Carl Hilty, who has s2fr *0™ "fj LESSED are they who are pleasant to live with. v5* V^* 4^* 4 IT LITTLE thought will show you how vastly your own /^ happiness depends on the way other people bear them- selves toward you. Turn the idea around, and remember that just so much arc you adding to the pleasure or the misery of other people's days. —George S. Merriam [a S ] 1 U S T BEING HAPPY 1p|° dwell happily together, they should be versed in the *»* niceties of the heart, and born with a faculty for willing compromise. -Robert Louis Stevenson £ £ J* *rtL HERE is nothing like putting the shine on another's face ^^ to put the shine on our own. Nine-tenths of all loneli- ness, sensitiveness, despondency, moroseness, are connected with personal interests. Turn more of these selfish interests into un- selfish ones, and by so much we change opportunities for di3- heartenment into their opposite. __ w c g ann€tt i£* t&& £* HAPPY WAYS OF DOING THINGS r f!L HERE is always a best way of doing everything, if it be V^ but to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things, each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened with usage. . . . You cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural expression. Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect. -Emerson V* v* u& J^T^ENTAL sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual *-*^ happiness makes human nature a flower garden in — Christian D. Larson JUST BEING HAPPY COLD your cup! Joy will fill it, Don't spill it, Steady, be ready. Good luck! -Henry van Dyke w^ {^V g^V *"f*L HE happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy ^J at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just finds them, —Ossian Lang <£w t^v ^5* ^"IHO that define it, say they more or less \A/ Than this,— that happiness is happiness? — Pope i£* 14* t^V TftL HE great secret of happiness is to study to accommodate our ^^ own minds to things external rather than to accommo- date things external to ourselves. —Dug aid Stewart %^t t^V ij™ BE sure to live on the sunny side, and even then do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. —Charles JV. Eliot JUST BEING HAPPY OW thou sorrow and thou shalt reap it, Sow thou joy and thou shalt keep it. — Richard Watson Gilder \&* <3* «** &2L LL these are elements of happiness — love of nature, ac- S~*+ quaintance with the wide earth, congenial intercourse with superior minds, and abiding friendships. —Charles W. Eliot v?* *?• tfl IF thou workest at that which is before thee, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing any- thing else to distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately; if thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent thls * —Marcus Aurelius & £ £ IF your whole world is upside down and joy and cheer are far from you, romp for an hour with a six-year old child and see if its laughter and faith are not veritable sign posts on The Road to Happiness. —Gladys Harvey-Knight [26] JUST BEING HAPPY ^rw^OULD ye learn the road to Laughtertown, \a/ O ye who have lost the way? Would ye have young heart though your hair be gray? Go learn from a little child each day, Go serve his wants and play his play, And catch the lilt of his laughter gay, And follow his dancing feet as they stray; For he knows the road to Laughtertown, O ye who have lost the way. —Katherine D. Blake 5^* i&* V7» rpays to be happy. Happiness is not a luxury, but a necessity. The beneficial effect of mental sunshine on life, ability, strength, vitality, endurance, is most pronounced. — Christian D. Larson vd* \erl kg* rthe long run, people are generally apt to get what they look for; those who are seeking trouble usually find it. A happy disposition is therefore to be cultivated, — Henry D. Chapin v* %5& ln& <^^HERE are two things which will make us happy in this V? Hfe, if we attend to them. The first is, never to vex ourselves about what we cannot help; and the second, never to vex ourselves about what we can help. Cfiatfield [37] JUST BEING HAPPY -6 HE happy have whole days, and those they use; Th' unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. — Dry den 4^* t^* V7* I FIND the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, dis- contented people. A man should make life and nature happier to us, or he had better never been born. Emerson *5» t^* t#* ^jf^HE measure of a man's happiness will be the number and %mJ strength of his friendships among people young and people old, people rich and people poor, people representing professions and those representing the occupations. —Newell Dwight Hillis *APPINESS appears to be a state that comes easiest when unsou g ht - -Henry D. Chapin «J* 4^* t£* |ECAUSE God is doing the best He can for all. in the very darkest hour of life, happiness and tranquillity are possible for all alike. -Newell D*=€ will come to a cottage as soon as to a palace. You need never wait for any outward pomp to come. As the sunshine of the Almighty will shine through a simple vine as richly as upon the velvet of a king or upon the gilded dome of a temple, so happiness falls with equal sweet- ness upon all whose minds are at peace and in whose hearts flow the good thoughts and good sentiments of life. — -David Swing ^% ^w ^n JOY is the very distilled elixir of energy and inspiration. It is the most invincible force. It is the power which is able to conquer and prevail. —Lilian Whiting %&& V?* ^¥ IF a man is unhappy, this must be his own fault; for God made all men to be happy. Epictetus ^5% s&* ^% 'm f OU are very sensible how much you have rambled after t^l happiness and failed. Neither learning, nor wealth, nor fame, nor pleasure could ever help you to it. Which way is it to be had, then? By acting up to the height of human nature. And how shall a man do this? Why, by getting a right set of principles for impulses and action. Marcus Aurelius [30] JUST BEING H A P P Y >w^SERY is the exception, happiness is the rule. No rational SJLc nian ever heard a bird sing without feeling that the bird was happy, and that if God made that bird He made it to be happy, and He takes pleasure in its happiness, though no human heart should ever share in its joy. — Charles KingsUy «/?» fj& £?* ryou want knowledge, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one. —Joint Ruskin && tar* 10* ^»^HE only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself %y with asking much about was happiness enough to get his work done. Not "I can't eat!" but "I can't work!"— that was the bur- den of all wise complaining among men. It is, after all, the one unhappiness of a man — that he cannot work. — Thomas Carlyle V$* *7* «5* BAPPINESS is not like a large and beautiful gem, so un* | common and rare that all search for it is in vain, all efforts to obtain it hopeless; but it consists of a series of smaller and commoner gems, grouped and set together, forming a pleas- ing and graceful whole. _ Samuel Smiles [3i] JUST BEING HAPPY HND now you are to ask yourself if, when all is done, it would not have been better to sit by the fire at home, and be happy thinking. To sit still and contemplate— to re- member the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where and what you are — is not this to know both wisdom and virtue, and to dwell with happiness? Walking Tours %0& *£& %£fc EOW it blesses the street, a face laughing all to itself! As soon as one sees it, the corners of his mouth begin to twitch, too, with the God's gift. Eyes light, strangers greet knowingly, hearts soften, spirits rise, lives brighten, and the world grows friendly, w r ithin the circle of the merry echo. Educate your laugh, if you can, to ring often and sweet, that you may be able to radiate widely your pleasure and health. If we may judge by the abundance of the glad sound, and its rapid radiation around every source of it, a good time must be part of the established success of Providence. —William C. Gannett X0& %ff& fgfm *^f HE happiest man is he who best understands his happi- %J ness, and he who understands it best is he who knows profoundly that his happiness is only divided from sorrow by a lofty, unwearying, humane and courageous view of *^ e - — Maurice Maeterlinck [32] JUST BEING HAPPY ris only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before everything else, be- cause our souls see it is good. George Eliot i&fc 10& ^v *f**P £* ve fc a PP^ness and to do good, there is our only ^^ law, our anchor of salvation, our beacon light, our reason for existing. All religions may crumble away; so long as these survive we have still an ideal, and life is worth living. —Amiel sJ» %a* <5^ T5 HERE'S lots of fun in the world if a fellow only knows how to find it. —Elliott Flower %£& 10* l&t *Jfilp make any one happy is strictly to augment his store ^J of being, to double the intensity of his life, to reveal him to himself, to ennoble him and transfigure him. Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. The man who doubts it can never have watched the first gleams of tenderness dawning in the clear eyes of one who loves — sunrise itself is a lesser marvel. Amiel [33] ft JUST BEING HAPPY APPINESS is not solitary; it joys to communicate, it loves others, for it depends on them for its existence. — Robert Louis Stevenson «J* *d* fj* IS not making others happy the best happiness? To illu- minate for an instant the depths of a deep soul, to cheer those who bear by sympathy the burden of so many sorrow- laden hearts and suffering lives, is to me a blessing and a precious privilege. There is a sort of religious joy in helping to renew the strength and courage of noble minds. We are surprised to find ourselves the possessors of a power of which we are not worthy, and we long to exercise it purely and seriously. -—Amiel fji ej* «^9 *|T^[FE is short, and we never have too much time for glad- ■ J 1 ^ dening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. O be swift to love, make haste to be kind! — J mi el t** ^* *5* ^^KERE can be nc real and abiding happiness without ^^ sacrifice. Our greatest joys do not result from our ef- forts toward self-gratification, but from a loving and spon- taneous service to other lives. Joy comes not to him who seeks it for himself, but to him who seeks it for other people. — H. IV. Sylvester I 34 1 JUST BEING HAPPY IN such a world, so thorny, and where none Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found, Without some thistly sorrow at his side, It seems the law of w r isdom, and no sin Against the law of love, to measure lots With less distinguish'd than ourselves; that thus We may with patience bear our moderate ills, And sympathize with others suffering more, —W. Cowper V?* w« ^?* WIE cannot have happiness until we forget to seek for \a/ it. We cannot find peace until we enter the path of self-sacrificing usefulness. ^jj enr y ^^ Dyke £& V?* %0& ILIAN WHITING says that no one can be unhappy who is filled with interest in the happiness of others. JUST BEING HAPPY "^£0 be happy and make others happy is the highest duty ^^ and privilege in life. Ill temper is the chief of crimes and misdemeanors. Ill temper is contagious, and a person has no more right to go about scattering germs of bad temper than he has to propagate smallpox or the measles. "Sunshine from all and for all" is our home motto, and instant quarantine is the penalty for a failure to live up to it. I believe a happy disposition contributes more to success in a life career than any other single element. —Dorothy Storrs «£• V* V* *^\0 one has any more right to go about unhappy than he A-X has to go about ill-bred. He owes it to himself, to his friends, to society, and to the community in general, to live up to his best spiritual possibilities, not only now and then, once or twice a year, or once in a season, but every day and every hour - —Lilian Whiting v?* v« ^V EAPPINESS, at least, is not solitary; it joys to communi- cate; it loves others, for it depends on them for its existence ; it sanctions and encourages to all delights that are not unkind in themselves. The very name and appearance of a happy man breathe of good-nature, and help the rest of us t0 live » — Robert Louis Stevenson * * * n CERTAIN simplicity of living is usually necessary to happiness. —Henry D. Chapin [36] JUST BEING HAPPY *fZL HE world is so full of a number of things, \J I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. — Robert Louis Stevenson v£» |J* i£ BAPPINESS is not in the possession of a fortune; happi- ness is in the self-reliance and industry that makes a fortune. —Newell Dwight Hillis w* %?• ^# ONE'S birthright is happiness. It is as freely offered as the sunshine and the air. It is a spiritual state, and not conditioned by material limits. Lilian Whiting * ji J* T5 ,. 1 O be strong to be happy! — Henry W. Longfellow %3* 40* «£» [APPINESS is inward, and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. — Henry van Dyke ipfc xe& %£& *n^O believe and go forward is the key to success and to \J happiness. —Lilian Whiting [37] JUST BEING HAPPY 'jf^HE first requisite for enduring happiness is in having V^ work to do in which one believes. —Henry D. Chapin v& t£# 1%fr n PPINESS is the natural flower of Duty. —Phillips Brooks «£* t£* «J* *TZL HE unhappy are always wrong; wrong in being so, wrong ^>J in saying so, wrong in needing help of others. ipw t£& %$& BE PLEASANT until ten o'clock in the morning, and the rest of the day will take care of itself. S J* jt ^XHERE is no happiness, then, but in a virtuous and self- ^■^ approving conduct. Unless our actions will bear the test of our sober judgments and reflections upon them, they are not the actions, and, consequently, not the happiness of a rational bein g- —Franklin Igrt %5& %&& OU have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant. —Charles Buxton v: JUST BEING HAPPY •"^f HAT happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which \sJ we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy. Happiness consists, not in possessing much, but in being content with what w T e possess. He who wants little always has enough. —Zimmerman t£V t£w t£m Y\0 NOT forget that even as "to work is to worship," so <*J to be cheery is to worship also; and to be happy is the first step to being pious. —Robert Louis Stevenson «5» *£» w* 'APPINESS is a very beautiful thing, — the most beautiful and heavenly thing in the world. Lilian Whiting i2& ij* %&£ RESOLVE *f*Lp create happiness in myself and others. V^ I will keep a strong body for the work I have to do ; a loving heart for those about me ; a clear mind for all truth, whose recognition brings freedom; a poised, unconquerable soul for the ideal whose champion I declare rnyself, And I will possess a faith mighty enough to rout anxiety, ride over difficulty, challenge hardship, smile through grief, deny failure, see only victory, looking to the end ; by which hopeful assurance now attuned, I am at peace with myself, the world, and the Infinite. [39] JUST BEING HAPPY RECIPE FOR A HAPPY LIFE '^^HREE ounces are necessary, first of patience, ^^ Then of repose and peace ; of conscience A pound entire is needful : Of pastimes of all sorts, too, Should be gathered as much as the hand can hold; Of pleasant memory and of hope three good drachms There must be at least. But they should moistened be With a liquor made from true pleasures which rejoice the heart. Then of love's magic drops a few — But use them sparingly, for they may bring a flame Which naught but tears can drown. Grind the whole and mix therewith of merriment an ounce To even. Yet all this may not bring happiness Except in your orisons you lift your voice To Him who holds the gift of health. — Margaret of Navarre (1500) Jl ^ & *^%LEASURE, like all other truly precious things in this ^^ world, cannot be bought or sold. If you wish to be amused, you must do your part toward it; that is the essential. — Charles Wagner tg?V %£& t^v *pLO LIVE, we must conquer incessantly, we must have the ^^ courage to be happy. — Amiel [40! JUST BEING HAPPY PEAKING of happiness, Joseph Jefferson once said: "My boys sometimes get discouraged and I say to them: 'Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to anybody, if it's only a pair of woolen stockings to a poor old woman; it will take you away from yourself and make you happy!'" Jl J* Jl I AM happy in having learned to distinguish between owner- ship and possession. Books, pictures, and all the beauty of the world belong to those who love and understand them — not usually to those who possess them. All of these things that I am entitled to I have- — I own them by divine right. So I care not a bit who possesses them. I used to care very much and consequently was very unhappy. — James Howard Kehler T5 # J» <* RUE happiness (if understood) Consists alone in doing good. — Somervtle i&* %lfc *2fc *1 *Jl HERE is an idea abroad among moral people that they ^^ should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy— if I may. —Robert Louis Stevenson [41] JUST BEING HAPPY ^^AKE Joy home, ^J And make a place in thy great heart for her; Then will she come, and oft will sing to thee, When thou art working in the furrows; aye, Or weeding in the sacred hour of dawn. It is a comely fashion to be glad — Joy is the grace we say to God. —Jean'lngelonv %&* %&* ^?* '7^HE great lesson to be learned is that happiness is within ^J us. No passing amusement, no companionship, no ma- terial possession can permanently satisfy. We must hoard up our own strength. We must depend upon our own resources for amusement and pleasure. We must make or mar our own tran- quillity. To teach them this is the preparation for life which we can give our children. ^5* t?% %2& HE real test of character is joy. For what you rejoice in, that you love and what you love, that you are like. — Henry wan Dyke JUST BEING HAPPY jJJTOMEWHERE on tne great world the sun is always shining, F*J and just so sure as you live, it will some time shine on you. The dear God has made it so. There is so much sunshine we must all have our share. Myrtle Reed \f& S0& t£* IS NOT making others happy the best happiness? — Amiel w?» «J» ..J5 THE SECRET OF A HAPPY DAY I TAKE it that in a happy day— and all life should be of one piece — there must be such a proportion between labor and rest or pleasure as shall leave a balance in favor of labor, so that one may have a permanent sense of achievement, without which there can be no solid sense of happiness, because it justifies human life. — T T. Hunger wJ i^ (^ BLESSED are the happiness makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle! — Henry Ward Beecher t-5* v?* ««?* T5 HE first step toward happiness is to determine to be nappy. — George Hodges [43] JUST BEING HAPPY <2^HE best way to secure a happy home is to be happy your- ^^ self. One really happy person is enough to create a delightful, pervasive atmosphere of happiness. To have a happy home, set the example of seif-sacrifice, love, service, of ministering rather than expecting to be ministered unto — and see what comes of it! {^V {^V %£* rl have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain, Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: — Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose Thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in! —Robert Louis Stevenson H £ Jt & HOME in which no laughter is heard is only a house, after all ; nay, worse, it is a tomb. q fj Knight [44] JUST BEING HAPPY Ww VE MAY be sure that cheerful beliefs about the unseen W world framed in full harmony with the beauty of the visible universe, and with the sweetness of domestic affections and joys, and held in company with kindred and friends, will illuminate the dark places on the pathway of earthly life and brighten all the road. —Charles W. Eliot J* «£* «£• OF all good gifts which ever came out of the wallet of the Fairy Godmother, the gift of natural gladness is the greatest and best. It is to the soul what health is to the body, what sanity is to the mind, the test of normality. — Bliss Carman «?• %t& v& *1-CAPPINESS must not be left too much to outside condi- <*— % tions. The ultimate result of life will be ourselves — nothing more nor less. It is, after all, what we are that largely makes for contentment. --Henry D. Chapin <* * # €1 ARTHLY happiness is not dependent on the amount of one's possessions or the nature of one's employment. —Charles W. Eliot [45] c JUST BEING HAPPY HE most completely lost of all days is the one on which we have not laughed. J» «£ J* APPINESS is rarely absent; it is we that know not its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck t^% t5w %£v "F IT wasn't for the optimist, the pessimist would never k know how happy he wasn't. >*2^f HE secret of happiness is— something to do. ^^ — John Burroughs %£& t2^ 10^ INSTEAD of seeking happiness by going out of our place, our skill should be to find it w r here we are. — Henry Ward Beecher be a painter does it suffice to arm one's self with a \mJ brush, or does the purchase at great cost of a Stradivarius make one a musician? No more, if you had the whole para- phernalia of amusement in the perfection of its ingenuity, would it advance you upon your road to happiness. But with a bit of crayon a great artist makes an immortal sketch. It needs talent or genius to paint; and to amuse one's self the faculty of being happy, whoever possesses it, is amused at slight cost. — Charles Wagner l2& l%& Ur* OLD proverb attributed happiness to him who expects little and thereby avoids disappointment. <^v v?* v5* 'jprfSRE'S hoping that on Fortune's face JLJ| You'll never see a frown, And that the corners of your mouth May never be turned down. -Luanda May [53] JUST BEING HAPPY *f\0 ART, it may be said, was ever perfect, and not many JL." noble, that has not been mirthfully conceived. And no man, it may be added, was ever anything but a wet blanket and a cross to his companions who boasted not a copious spirit of enjoyment. —Robert Louis Stevenson. ' J W MAN who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen jZm+ (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate — a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, or a womans' bright eyes — he may be left in a month destitute of all. — Robert Louis Stevenson T3 fc?* %5* !<7» ALK happiness! Why, a well beggar has a better time of it than a sick king any day. Amber ta& c<5* V7* -6 O ATTAIN the Art of Living is to attain happiness. — Lilian Whiting t£& t0* tO* xs O OWE an obligation to a worthy friend is happiness. — Pierce Chanon [54] JUST BEING HAPPY 6ENTLENESS and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties * * * If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "Give them up," for they may be ail you have; but conceal them like vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. —Robert Louis Stevenson 14& t^V t£* TOR Yesterday is but a Dream, «*■** And To-Morrow is only a Vision ; But To-Day, well lived, Makes every Yesterday A dream of Happiness, And every To-Morrow a Vision of Hope. n tj* ^?* c$* ABOR, the symbol of man's punishment; Labor, the secret of man's happiness. — Jam es M outgo m cry i3* w?* *3* F YOU are happy, it is largely to your own credit. If ► you are miserable, it is chiefly your own fault. —William DeWitt Hyde [55] JUST BEING HAPPY IT IS the initial business and purpose of life to be happy; and, lest the moralist should object to this as a frivolous proposition, it may be added that it is that true happiness synonymous with holiness — which is meant — the quality of happiness that manifests itself in abounding energy and good- will. —Lilian Whiting %&& <^W V?* IT IS one of the paths to success and happiness in life, or rather it is success and happiness in itself, to be swiftly responsive to the angel when he draws near. — Lilian Whiting t£% £% ^v ^^ some E GOOD and you will be happy — but you may be lone- ^V v^» vi [APPINESS is neither within us nor without us. It is the union of ourselves with God. Pascal i&% %2n v?* HAPPINESS, like health, is the normal state; and when this is not felt, the cause should be looked for just as in illness the cause should be scrutinized and removed. — Lilian Whiting [s«] B JUST BEING HAPPY |APPINESS is a great love and a much serving. — Olive Schreiner tl* t?5 %£* V^APPINESS and goodness, according to canting moralists, -^■■C stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitutions; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness, and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease more painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us. It is not even its own reward, except for the self-centred and — I had almost said — the unamiable. — Robert Louis Stevenson Jff «$f <£f GOD has given us tongues that we may say something pleasant to our fellow-men. — Heinrich Heine %P* t£& i^m *^^HE happiest heart that ever beat ^^ Was in some quiet breast, That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest. — John Vance Cheney [57] JUST BEING HAP P Y TF a person cannot be happy without remaining idle, idle -** he should remain. It is a revolutionary preceot; but thanks to hunger and the workhouse, one not easily to be abused; and, within practical limits, it is one of the most in- contestable truths in the whole Body of Morality. Look at one of your industrious fellows for a moment, I beseech you He sows hurry and reaps indigestion; he puts a vast deal of activity out to interest, and receives a large measure of nervous derangement in return. Either he absents himself entirely from all fellowship, and lives a recluse in a garret, with carpet slippers and a leaden inkpot; or he comes among people swiftly and bitterly, in a contraction of his whole nervous system, to discharge some temper before he returns to work. I do not care how much or how well he works, this fellow is an evil feature in other people's lives. They would be hapoier if he were dead. «„» . r . „ — Kobert Louis Stevenson 15 '^% %£»> HE happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. _ — George Eliot *jp£ ALK of the happiness of getting a great prize in the *** lottery! What is that to opening a box of books? The joy upon lifting up the cover must be something like that which we shall feel when Peter, the porter, opens the door upstairs, and says, "Please to walk in, sir." o ,? * — S out key [58] JUST BEING HAPPY ^|VY DEAR ROBERT,— -One passage in your Letter a little mJH displeased me * * * You say that "this world to you reems drained of all its sweets!" At first I had hoped you only meant to insinuate the high price of Sugar! but I am afraid you meant more. O Robert, I don't know what you call sweet. Honey and the honeycomb, roses and violets, are yet in the earth. The sun and moon yet reign in Heaven, and the lesser lights keep up their pretty twinklings. Meats and drinks, sweet sights and sw T eet smells, a country walk, spring and autumn, follies and repentance, quarrels and reconcilements, have all a sweetness by turns. So good humor and good nature, friends at home that love you, and friends abroad that miss you— you possess all these things, and more innumerable: and these are all sweet things. You may extract honey from ever}'thing; do not go a-gathering after gall * * * I as- sure you I find this world a very pretty place. —Charles Lamb to Robert Lloyd ^* t0™ 3°, ME work to do f something to care for, and something to hope for, are what make happiness in life. —Dr. Chalmers ta& <2& "jfTTsh true happiness is both a consequence and a cause of 7