“…And then one student said that happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of the summer, a night so hot you can’t even wear a tee-shirt.  And you try to sleep on top of the sheets instead of under them, although try to sleep is probably more accurate.  And then at some point, late, late, late at night, say a bit just before dawn, the heat finally breaks and the night turns cool.  And when you briefly wake up you notice you’re almost chilly, and in your groggy, half-consciousness, you reach over and pull the sheet around you.  And just that flimsy sheet makes it warm enough and you drift back off into a deep sleep.

And it’s that reaching, that gesture, that reflex we have to pull up what’s warm – whether it’s something or someone – that feeling we get when  we do that, that feeling of being safe in the world and ready for sleep: that’s happiness.”

-Unknown