Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy. And keep choosing it every day. - Henri J.M. Nouwen

When you sense a faint potentinality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face- first out of the dirt. This is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life, it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love