2021 Reprint of the 1962 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. by Ruth Stout is what a self-help book should be: tart, down-to-earth, realistic and sound advice from a woman who lived well and wasn't shy about sharing ideas that worked. Having helped thousands of gardeners to achieve success the easy way (in ), Ruth Stout now has something for anyone pursuing the age-old search for happiness. She reveals in down-to-earth fashion how you can be happy in your daily life here and now. Are you plagued by a constant swarm of resentments, anxieties, irritations? Are you often bored, lonely, depressed, beset by a chronic sense of dissatisfaction? Do you despair of anything ever being any better unless everyone around you changes-perhaps, unless the whole world is reformed? Then read this book!!!!