Vonnegut's words of wisdom

Andrew Sullivan links to the AV Club's 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Says Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will.  My favorite describes my mood when I wrote this post.  Here it is:

1. "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
The actual advice here is technically a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's "good uncle" Alex, but Vonnegut was nice enough to pass it on at speeches and in A Man Without A Country. Though he was sometimes derided as too gloomy and cynical, Vonnegut's most resonant messages have always been hopeful in the face of almost-certain doom. And his best advice seems almost ridiculously simple: Give your own happiness a bit of brainspace.

I can relate to the part about being too gloomy and cynical.  All 15 are excellent, I definitely like the write-up for "So it goes."