" Suffering is such a deep part of living,” wrote Robert Kull, who lived alone on an island in Patagonia for a year, in 2001, “that if we try too hard to avoid it, we end up avoiding life entirely.” The Tao Te Ching says that “happiness rests in misery. "

― Michael Finkel , The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit