You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

Laini Taylor
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Do you really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of? It’s easy to look at the world and see how much pain there is. You see people falling apart, you see addiction, wars, poverty, terrorism, famine, death, abuse, rape, etc. Even if you don’t experience anything personally, you can still see it all around you. But what if I told you that life is also full of joy? The people who are smiling on the streets may be doing so because they are happy to be alive.

Those who are having fun might just be having fun. They might not know why they are smiling or why they are laughing, but that hasn’t stopped them from doing it. Happiness is not something that can always be found outside of us.

It is something we create for ourselves.

Source: Daughter Of Smoke & Bone

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