Then when it seems you will never smile again
Life begins - Unknown

There are things you do because they feel right and they make no sense or they make no money
And it may be the real reason we are here
To love each other and eat each other’s cooking and say it was good - Story People

Absolute, perfect, continuous happiness in life, is impossible for the human. It would mean the consummation of attainments, the individual consciousness of a perfectly fulfilled destiny. Happiness is paradoxic because it may coexist with trial, sorrow and poverty. It is the gladness of the heart,--rising superior to all conditions - William George Jordan

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the most of my chance
-Christopher Morley