From an article on Kurt Vonnegut in the USAToday, for everyone to share. It seemed appropriate to put in the Pink Lady's thread
"But then again there is the humanistic Vonnegut, honorary president of the Humanist Association: In A Man Without a Country, he repeats something his Uncle Alex used to say when they were sitting under an apple tree, chatting and drinking lemonade.
"Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.' "
It is a saying he now carries around with him, and he urges everyone to "please notice when you are happy."