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Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying.

Happiness is paradoxic because it may coexist with trial, sorrow and poverty.

Happiness is the voice of optimism, of faith, of simple, steadfast love.

The basis of happiness is the love of something outside self.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.

In this way only we can ascertain the bent of our own tastes, for it is a general, though not of course an invariable, rule, that we profit little by books which we do not enjoy.

Many readers miss much of the pleasure of reading by forcing themselves to dwell too long continuously on one subject.

Of all the privileges we enjoy in this nineteenth century there is none, perhaps, for which we ought to be more thankful than for the easier access to books.

So delightful indeed are books that we must be careful not to forget other duties for them; in cultivating the mind we must not neglect the body.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness.

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

It has been the happy combination of art and science which has trained us to perceive the beauty which surrounds us.

Education ought not to cease when we leave school; but if well begun there, will continue through life.

Moreover, whatever our occupation or profession in life may be, it is most desirable to create for ourselves some other special interest.

Whatever may be the subject of our choice, we shall find enough, and more than enough, to repay the devotion of a lifetime.

A lunch of bread and cheese after a good walk is more enjoyable than a Lord Mayor's feast.

There is, however, a true Music of Nature,--the song of birds, the whisper of leaves, the ripple of waters upon a sandy shore, the wail of wind or sea.

In endless aspects science is as wonderful and interesting as a fairy tale.

In short, children should be trained to observe and to think, for in that way there would be opened out to them a source of the purest enjoyment for leisure hours, and the wisest judgment in the work of life.

Any one who will sit down quietly on the grass and watch a little will be indeed surprised at the number and variety of living beings, every one with a special history of its own, every one offering endless problems of great interest.

How much more interesting would every walk in the country be, if Man would but treat other animals with kindness, so that they might approach us without fear, and we might have the constant pleasure of watching their winning ways.

Without water no landscape is complete, while overhead the clouds add beauty to the heavens themselves.