Abundance changes the value of things. Terence. *Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
J. Petit-Senn.
Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.
Johnson.
There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Emerson
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
Seneca.
O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness.
Channing
A joyous heart supplies oil to our inward machinery, and makes the whole of our powers work with ease and efficiency; hence it is of the utmost importance that we maintain a contented, cheerful, genial disposition.
Aughey
A true news article cut
and saved for my dads humor files some time ago. An Error In The Pet Law Arvada, Colo. - A
drafting error in the city's animal control ordinance has just been noticed. It provides
that if a stray pet picked up by the city is not claimed within twenty-four hours, the
owner will be destroyed. City manager Capp Shanks says a correction in the ordinance will
be made. 
In
June 1994, a judge in Thousand Oaks, California dismissed neighbors' request for an
injunction against Kathleen Adams, who the neighbors said lures squirrels to her home with
food and thus creates a nuisance. Adams claims the area is populated with squirrels
anyway, and that she does not need to lure them. Neighbors' evidence included the fact
that Adams posts "Squirrels Welcome" signs in her yard, but the judge said he
found the signs unpersuasive in that he doubted that squirrels could read them. 
