Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the… - Brianna Wiest

Happiness is not experiencing something else; it’s continually experiencing what you already have in new and different ways.

The ways in which your current situation — though perhaps unplanned or unwanted — could be the path to the place you’ve actually always wanted to be, if only you’d begin to think of it that way.

The people you smiled at on the street this morning, the people whom you text regularly, the family you could stand to visit more — all the little bits of genuine human connection that you overlook because they’ve become givens.