You can and probably should decide proactively that you…
You can and probably should decide proactively that you want to be happy. Recognizing and appreciating the multiple gifts that one is given. There are many people who don't wake up in the morning. These things are very difficult to internalize. Thinking that you have the right to exist is the same as entitlement.
— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)
In the book
Lower the second number and the first one rises. None of it happens by accident — happiness starts with a conscious choice, and you can, and probably should, simply decide that you mean to be happy. Knowing the theory changes nothing by itself. […] I grew up among the old and the dying, and it taught me not to waste the trip. So decide — actually decide — that you intend to be happy, and then recognize and appreciate the staggering gifts you've been handed, without ever sliding into the entitlement of thinking you were simply owed them. Do not use your hardships as a reason to refuse yourself a good time; no one is making you carry the weight every hour. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)