"I would not call myself happy--no man can be quite happy in the midst of the poverty and suffering that still survive about him today; but I am content, and inexpressibly grateful.
Where, in the last resort, does my treasure lie?--in everything. A man should have many irons in the fire; he should not let his happiness be bound up entirely with his children, or his fame, or his prosperity, or even his health; but he should be able to find nourishment for his content in any one of these, even if all the rest are taken away.
My last resort, I think, would be Nature herself; shorn of all other gifts and goods, I should find, I hope, sufficient courage for existence in any mood of field and sky, or, shorn of sight, in some concourse of sweet sounds, or some poet's memory of a day that smiled. All in all, experience is a marvelously rich panorama, from which any sense should be able to draw sustenance for living."
— On the Meaning of Life by Will Durant
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