Maybe

"Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty levels to go.

Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks -- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you got there -- and downticks -- the itchy tag at the back of your collar -- that happened to every person in the course of a day. Maybe everybody had the same alloted measure of happiness within each day.

Maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if your friend was possibly dying.
Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for."

-Tibby Rollins