Happiness Floats

“It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness. With sadness there is something to rub against, a wound to attend with lotion and cloth. When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up, something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or change. But happiness floats. It doesn’t need you to hold it down. It doesn’t need anything… Since there is no place large enough to contain so much happiness, you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you into everything you touch. You are not responsible. You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit for the moon but continues to hold it, and share it, and in that way, be known.”
– Naomi Shihab Nye

(via Emilie)

2 Comments leave a comment below

  1. Choosing happiness in this whole cancer journey thing has made a world of difference. I hope for others going through anything tough to accept moments of sadness and difficulty + actively choose happiness in confronting fear.

  2. @Lauren, So much <3 for this comment.