Choose joy… Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action.
Feel the sorrow, take the action, but keep pressing the weight of joy against it all, until it becomes mindless, automated, like gravity pulling the stream down its course; until it becomes an inner law of nature...
Joy is not a function of a life free of friction and frustration, but a function of focus — an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice. - Maria Popova