Exerpt from Elizabeth Gilbert´s book - Eat Pray Love

´´I keep remembering one of my gurus teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck,something that maybe descends upon you like fine weather if your fortunate enough. But thats not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.You fight for it,strive for it,insist upon it , and even sometimes travel the world searching for it.You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.And once you have acheived a state of happiness,you must never become lax about maintaining it,you must make mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever,to stay afloat on top of it.If you dont you will leak away your inate contenment.Its easy enough to pray éven when your in distress,but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process,helping your soul hold tight to it´s good attainments.´´