“Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you: Just as plants need sun, water, and good soil to thrive, people need love, work, and a connection to something larger. It is worth striving to get the right relationships between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself. If you get these relationships right, a sense of purpose and meaning will emerge.
- Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (via s-stevens)
for. true. love
This dog was unable to gaze at his beloved cat due to some menacing potted plants, but true love won in the end.
(via eliewang)
