Happiness Is Not A Matter Of Intensity

One who is content with what he has, and who accepts the fact that he inevitably misses very much in life, is far better off than one who has much more but who worries about all he may be missing.
For we cannot make the best of what we are, if our hearts are always divided between what we are and what we are not.

-- Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

-- Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island