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"...a staggering proportion of human activity - in politics, business, and international relations, as much as in our personal lives - is motivated by the desire to feel safe and secure.  And yet this quest to feel secure doesn't always lead to security, still less to happiness.  It turns out to be an awkward truth about psychology that people who find themselves in what the rest of us might consider conditions of extreme insecurity - such as severe poverty - discover insights into happiness from which the rest of us could stand to learn.  And if the most radical proponents of the 'negative path' are to be believed, in turning towards insecurity we may come to understand that security itself is a kind of illusion - and that we were mistaken, all along, about what it was we thought we were searching for."
-Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote:  Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking