Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love, peace and soul.
Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
For a man, the soul of a woman is a preserving talisman, guarding him from moral infections; it is a power holding him to the straight path, a guide leading him back from the crooked to the straight. On the other hand, the soul of a woman can be his evil and ruin him forever.
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.