In Other Words Don't Worry, Be Happy

Let us enter the New Year cheerfully. Let us resolve to look on the bright side, to make the best of whatever may befall, to maintain faith that doing the right thing will ultimately bring victory. Let us cultivate sunniness, resist sourness. We can better wrestle with difficulties, obstacles, problems in a spirit of buoyancy than in an abject, morose mood. How much more the radiant mortal gets out of life and puts into life than the downcast, long-faced self-pitying being!
---B. C. Forbes (1937)

It can be refreshing to dip into essays and literature from the pre-World War II era. Although they did go on (and on), writers knew how to turn a phrase, e.g., "spirit of buoyancy", "abject, morose mood." Nowadays we don't have the time or patience to indulge that style, either as readers or writers. More's the pity.