Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness
being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
~Iris Murdoch
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements in life,
when all we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
~Charles Kingsley
The art of living does not consist
in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness,
but in allowing happiness to change its form
without being disappointed by the change;
happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
~Charles L. Morgan
illustration courtesy of www.allposters.com
"Autumn Barn" by Michael Humphries