p. 258 | Habit of Happiness by E. Elffers

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 5, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 17.

Habit of Happiness

By E. Elffers

ONE can acquire a habit of happiness just as one can fall into that dreadfully bad habit of being sorry for oneself, and it is astonishing how happy people and happy homes are sought and appreciated. Happiness in the face is like the sun in a landscape or a fire in our living-room; it attracts the attention as the principal thing, and warms and cheers all those who see it. Happiness, like good humor, is contagious; and just as one unconsciously begins to smile when watching radiant, laughing people, so one unconsciously begins to feel happy when one is in the company of genuinely happy people. “True happiness” is only another term for gratitude to the Giver of all good, and there is wonderful help in counting the blessings that we have, large or small, and hunting them up determinedly. E. ELFFERS.