О счастье. Re:Зачем быть сильным?

В комментариях к моей записи "Про правильное питание" я задал вопрос ny_quant: Зачем нужно быть особо сильным?

ny_quant отвечать не стал, зато ЖЖ-аноним напомнил мне цитату из этой же книжки:

"A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up."— Mark Rippetoe

Отлично, по-моему. Ради счастья!

Что мне эта цитата напомнила... Kurt Vonnegut "Breakfast of Champions":

The driver was thinking seriously of buying aluminum siding for his home in Little Rock, and he begged Trout to give him an honest answer to this question: "From what you've seen and heard—the people who get aluminum siding, are they happy with what they get?"

"Around Cohoes," said Trout. "I think those were about the only really happy people I ever saw."