WHAT MAKES HAPPINESS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 07, Issue 45, 7 November 1907, Page 37

WHAT MAKES HAPPINESS

A 1 iittle 'thought will show you how vastly your own happiness depends on how other people bear themselves Howards you. The looks and tones at your breakfast table, the conduct of your fellow-workers or employers, the faithful or unreliable men you deal with, what people say to'you on the street, the way your cook and housemaid do Itheir work, l the letters you get, the friends or foes you meet, these things make up very much of the pleasure or misery of your day. Turn the idea around and remember that just so much are you adding to the pleasure or misery of other people's days. And this is the half of the matter which you can control. Whether any particular day shall bring to you more of happiness or of suffering is largely beyond your power to determine. Whether each day of your life shall give happiness or suffering to others rests with yourself.