"Have the depth of faith to regard
everything as a source for
creating happiness and value."

No, this trick won't work...  How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself." (Hesse in Reading in Bed, ed. by Steven Gilbar, 1974)