SECRET OF HAPPINESS
We each of us possess within- ourselves the .true source '- - of happiness. Enjoyment is contained in our imagination, not in the book we read, in our appreciation of beauty, not in the picture; our musical culture, not in the instrument • played. Our enjoyment of nature does not depend upon the charm of our surroundings, but upon ourselves. _ Some men will find more joy in the prairie than others in the Alps; some more joy in the desert than others in the~ flowers and forests of fertile lands. Is it the rich, the . . powerful, the popular that obtain the greatest happiness? We look about \is and we know that this is not true, though we act' as if it were. Blessed are the poor .in spirit. This 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.
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New Zealand Tablet, 2 September 1909, Page 35
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162SECRET OF HAPPINESS New Zealand Tablet, 2 September 1909, Page 35
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