Everywhere he went, the man carried brightly colored balloons. He enjoyed watching them float above his head. And it was easy to hold the string in his hand or wrap it around his wrist and take his colorful balloons wherever he went. The other people where he worked were accustomed to seeing them. They didn’t [...]

No one will ever get out of this world alive. Resolve therefore in the year to come to maintain a sense of values. Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone’s major source of wealth. Without it happiness is almost impossible.
Resolve to be cheerful and helpful. People will repay you in kind. Avoid angry, abrasive [...]

We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough and we’ll be more content when they are.
After that we’re frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out [...]

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert.
He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that had rolled under the radiator, striving for it as [...]