The biggest lie...

... promoted by various of our social institutions is that we’re here to be happy all the time. We’re bombarded by business, the media, and the church with the lie that we’re here to be happy, fulfilled, and comfortable. For motives of profit, the lies of materialism and advertising suggest that if we’re not happy, comfortable, and fulfilled, we must be eating the wrong cereal or driving the wrong car. Or that we must not have it right with God. How wicked! The truth is that our finest moments, more often than not, occur precisely when we are uncomfortable, when we’re not feeling happy or fulfilled, when we’re struggling and searching.

-- M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond