"The conscious ability to do without happiness gives the best prospect of realizing such happiness is attainable.  For nothing except that consciousness can raise a person above the chances of life by making him feel that, let fate and fortune do their worst, they have not the power to subdue him; which, once felt, frees him from the excess of anxiety concerning the evils of life and enables him, like many a Stoic in the worst of times of the Roman Empire, to cultivate in tranquility the sources of satisfaction accessible to him, without concerning himself about the uncertainty of their duration any more than about their inevitable end."

John Stuart Mill - excerpt from "Utilitarianism"

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