A SPIRIT OF HAPPINESS.
There are few people who do not contribute something to the stun of human good and, pleasure even if they do it only accidentally and incidentally. Your contribution may be beauty, or wit or sympathy; it may be inexhaustible patience or a quick power of understanding, a E' ft for nursing the sick or for stimuting the depressed- Bea,uty is wasted where there is no appreciation, witwhere there is no intelligence. Only our love or our kindness—that quality which is so much mom than is ordinarily meant by "bemg siud"—cav®? fails. Er;in fcere there are people who set limits to the good they, do. Therais'the'essentially noble type who would do great'things for another if the necessity arose, but who cannot descend to the little kindnesses of life. Then 1 , are others who are charming and who make us feel what nice, intelligent people we are, but who might prove spineless creatures if put to a test. The spirit of happiness is born of a sustained yet nnoitscioo sttituds toward other people.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19459, 15 October 1926, Page 7
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175A SPIRIT OF HAPPINESS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19459, 15 October 1926, Page 7
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