The faculty of being happy is destroyed by skepticism, artificial living, over-abuse; it is fostered by confidence, moderation, and normal habits of thought and action. Wherever life is simple and sane, true pleasure accompanies it as fragrance does uncultivated flowers.... He who takes pains to foster it [joy] accomplishes a work as profitable for humanity as he who builds bridges, pierces tunnels, or cultivates the ground. So to order one's life as to keep, amid toil and suffering, the faculty of happiness, and be able to propagate it in a sort of salutary contagion among one's fellow-men, is to do a work of fraternity in the noblest sense. No one finds more pleasure for himself than he who knows how, without ostentation, to give himself, that he may procure for those around him a moment of forgetfulness and happiness. —
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The faculty of being happy is destroyed by skepticism...
From the October 1905 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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