Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky.
And you lift me up out of the two worlds.
I want your sun to reach my raindrops.
So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
For You, My Love
Tag: happiness
Open Your Eyes
You close your eyes when you cry. That’s ok. Just don’t keep them closed too long. Things have become beautiful since you last looked. There’s nothing more to cry about.
Rainbow
Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.
— Unknown
Hidden Happiness
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
— Helen Keller
The Pursuit of Happyness
It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?
— Christopher Garner in The Pursuit of Happyness