In our apartments often the air’s quality is not the best.
There are some houseplants that can greatly improve the quality of the air we breathe day and night.

Dracena Marginata

The Dracena is a very pretty and useful ornamental air cleaner plant.
The Dracena “Warneckei”, the “Marginata” and the “Massangeana” well absorb poisons such as benzene, formaldehyde and trichlorethylene.
The Dracaena Marginata is widespread and readily available in garden shops and sellers of flowers and plants.
The Dracaena is an easy plant to cultivate at home or office and requires diffuse light but not direct sun, moist environments, but only if necessary and watering soft organic soil with sand. The multiplication is done for layering or cuttings.

Gerbera

The Gerbera is able to absorb and remove many chemical toxins from the air.
The Gerbera plants loves bright, moderately dry and well ventilated positions. They tolerate direct sunlight but the sun of the hottest summer may severely damage the leaves. The soil must be very draining, not bear stagnant water that can quickly lead to the appearance of rot and plant death. For this reason, the watering should be moderate, in any case should wait until the soil to dry completely (in depth) before watering again. During the growth phase and rarely given a good dose very mild fertilizer NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) balance.
The Gerbera tolerates the winter if kept away from rain, frost and watered very little. The plant reacts stably at temperatures below 13 ° C going into stasis vegetative (dormant) during which he may lose the entire aerial part to produce re-arrival of the first warmth of spring.
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157. If a man hold himself dear, let him watch himself carefully;
during one at least out of the three watches a wise man should be
watchful.

158. Let each man direct himself first to what is proper, then let him
teach others; thus a wise man will not suffer.
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Mahatma Gandhi

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed”
Mahatma Gandhi

146. How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always
burning? Why do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by
darkness?

147. Look at this dressed-up lump, covered with wounds, joined
together, sickly, full of many thoughts, which has no strength, no
hold!
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129. All men tremble at punishment, all men fear death; remember that
you are like unto them, and do not kill, nor cause slaughter.

130. All men tremble at punishment, all men love life; remember that
thou art like unto them, and do not kill, nor cause slaughter.
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116. If a man would hasten towards the good, he should keep his
thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his
mind delights in evil.

117. If a man commits a sin, let him not do it again; let him not
delight in sin: pain is the outcome of evil.
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100. Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of
senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he
becomes quiet.

101. Even though a Gatha (poem) be a thousand (of words), but made up
of senseless words, one word of a Gatha is better, which if a man
hears, he becomes quiet.
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福-fu-felicità-happiness

The character is decomposed into parts:

礻 [used as radicals means 示 shì, which means: manifest, to demonstrate]
畐 [fù - to fill, fullness]

So what’s happiness?
Manifest the fullness, demonstrate and achieve full satisfaction.

90. There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey,
and abandoned grief, who has freed himself on all sides,
and thrown off all fetters.

91. They depart with their thoughts well-collected, they are not happy
in their abode; like swans who have left their lake, they leave their
house and home.
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“Live more simply,
so others can simply live”
Ervin Laszlo