Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — The Art of Being Happy. [ARTICLE]

The Art of Being Happy.

Some people seem to think that happiness is a thing that you can get hold of and keep as if it were a possession or a quality of character. In reality you have to work for it and you have to keep on working. Teach yourself to respond to everything lovely or Cheerful, to see beauty, to enjoy the society of your fellow men, to delight in work and to be enthusiastic in play. Teach yourself interest in the"struggles and hopes of others —the sort of interest that is of use, that is a help, says an exchange. Learn to enjoy the many little things that turn up day by day. Make the most of your own mind, your own capacities. Don’t sit around, pondering whether you are happy of not, whether or not life is worth living. Live it thoroughly, keep awake to all the wonder of it, and you will be happy without knowing it, at first, until you have gone along far enough to realize what happiness is.