SOURCE OF HAPPINESS
i We each of us possess vftthin ourselves the true \ source of happiness: ~'Eiijoyment.is } containedrMn bur , imagination, not in -the, book-v-jee- -read ;- in our appreciation ?of beauty, _ not ■in the picture ; - our musical cul- • ture, jiot in the instrument played. Our enjoyment of nature 'does not depend upon tlfe charm of our surroun-d- { ings, but up.on -ourselves. 'Soirie' men,- will find more " joy in; -the -prairie than .- others ,-ja.y the> Alpsy- sqme more . joy dn' the desert than otbersin the flower's and' "forests- afMer<tile_'- lands. \lsit the : rioh r the -powerful the ' popular- that obtain the : greatest -.bappliießs?. We', look about - us- -and we know - that- "this -is,* .snot- true «though--we act as if ifc were. .Blessed- are the^poor inspirittUs we know is true, -though' * we' act as- if it were not. No one is truly happy who has not "happiness as >-a well- of water springing- up. within himself, into everlasting life. _/■-' . ■„ ■ .;" : •; ' v ; /". .:.,-:
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New Zealand Tablet, 20 December 1906, Page 37
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157SOURCE OF HAPPINESS New Zealand Tablet, 20 December 1906, Page 37
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