The road to anywhere
Peter Pinney

"Then happiness springs from love?"
He pondered his reply.
"Monsieur, if I make bread without salt, it is poor bread and I throw it away. If a man lives without hope, his life is poor and he throws it away.
Hope is the salt of life. But as yeast will make bread rise, so will love will make a man rise; with love he can rise above himself, above selfishness, his heart swells and becomes big, and he finds happiness.

Only a man who loves well and is well loved, monsieur, can find happiness... and no man can be happy if his heart lies in another place, apart from him."

Unhappy, then, is the man whose heart lies on the far horizon, and always moves ahead.

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