All human activity springs from two sources : impulse and desire. When men find themselves not fully consented, and not able instantly to procure what will cause content, imagination brings before their minds the thoughts of things which they believe would make them happy. A life governed by purposes and desires, to the exclusion of impulse, is a tiring life; it exhausts vitality, and leaves a man, in the end, indifferent to the very purposes which he has been trying to achieve.
the conventional conception of what constitutes success leads most men to live a life in which their most vital impulses are sacrificed, and the joy of life is lost in listless weariness.
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