Happiness
I feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. We’re always thinking that someday we’ll be happy. You know, we’ll get that car or that job or that person in our lives that fixes everything. But happiness is a mood and a condition, it’s not a destination. It’s like being tired or hungry; it’s not permanent, it comes and it goes, and that’s okay. And I feel like if people thought of it that way, they’d find happiness a lot more often.— One Tree Hill
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