Happiness and Health

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 30, 1910

Happiness and Health

“HEALTH and happiness” are terms that are often closely linked in our speech and in our literature. One is almost a synonym for the other. Perhaps the true significance existing between the two would be more correctly stated were we to reverse the form in which they are usually set forth, and say “happiness and health” instead. All observers of human nature and its many complex attributes are convinced that happiness is the fountain spring of health. One of the keenest students of life tells us that “small annoyances are the seeds of disease. We can not afford to entertain them. They are the bacteria, the germs, that make serious disturbances in the system, and prepare the way for all derangements. They furnish the mental conditions which are manifested later in the blood, the tissues, and the organs, under various pathological names. Good thoughts are the only germicide. We must kill our resentment and regret, our impatience and anxiety. Health will surely follow.”—Selected.