G.K. Chesterton Once Said...

This one pulled me into the work of G.K. Chesterton … and, I’m diving deeper into the rabbit hole … and very likely adding to the growing pile of books on my nightstand:

"People are more themselves when joy is the fundamental thing in them, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and figurative frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live."