“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
“Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.”
“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”
“We do not choose what happens to us. We can only choose what we do after. What we do now. We can only choose to keep going.”
“How do we come to choose what it is that we spend our days doing? Would we choose it again if we could? Did we choose it today, or has it simply carried us along somehow?”
“Whatever we embrace will embrace us back: misery or happiness, sadness or joy, guilt or virtue, regress or progress. We are what we choose to be.”