L. M. Montgomery on happiness

Isn’t it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren’t born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that to-morrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss1904–1991

It was when I was happiest that I longed most…The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty came from.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956), Pt. 1, VII (Psyche)

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Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you, and be happy.

Anne Frank1929–1945

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