Happiness is a choice...

The longer I live, the more I come to believe that happiness is a choice. Joy is a direct result of one's attitude and reactions to personal experiences, both good and bad. It is being able to see just how good the good things are, and searching for and finding any shred of good in the bad. Happiness is optimism in even the most dreary situations. It is a perspective, a learning to let go of that which is negative.

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

So make the decision to be happy, without forcing it, and then move on prepared to allow joy into your life in any and all of its infinite forms.

-Britt

"'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best,' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called." ~A.A. Milne

I wish I knew what that moment was called too... :]