"If you only had night, how would you know the beauty of the sunrise?"
This quote is taken from a lecture by Mikaeel Ahmed Smith focused God’s quality of restriction and expansion of things. I think that happiness lies in understanding that life will be turbulent with moments of distress and moments of joy, and recognizing the goodness in each of those moments creates further appreciation for life. Much of what I have been taught about happiness and bounty/ blessings are that they can become consuming in a way that forces us into a constant cycle of consumption stemming from a lack of contentment, which in turn reduces our ability to be happy.