Reading Of The Day

“People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck,
something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if
you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works.
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it,
strive for it, insist upon it and sometimes even travel around the
world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the
manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved
a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining
it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that
happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will
leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when
you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has
passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its
good attainments.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert