“An aim is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands but in the heart itself.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Travel
I include Stevenson’s “aim” in my grand numbered theories of happiness, in the notion of the “atmosphere of growth” in the First Splendid Truth.
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