On Trigger and Seeds

I was catching up on Maureen Dowd's column today, and found this thought from Henry Van Dyke about Christmas. I think I will add "sow a few seeds of happiness" to my list for 2008.

“Are you willing ... to own, that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness ... to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings ...? Then you can keep Christmas.”