The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.

Feeling something strongly and doing nothing with it is quietly corrosive. Emotion is energy looking for an outlet, and with none available it turns inward into rumination, or drains away and leaves you a little number than before. Converted into action, even small action, the same feeling produces satisfaction instead of residue. The pleasure comes from the transfer itself.

Take whatever has been moving you lately, anger, tenderness, worry about someone, and give it one concrete outlet this week. Send the message, make the donation, start the piece of work. A small act about a large feeling relieves more than waiting until you can do something proportionate.