Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind. – Alice Meynell
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. – Alice Meynell

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind. – Alice Meynell
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. – Alice Meynell
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. – Alice Meynell
The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. – Alice Meynell
If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden