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Peace is the greatest of all things.

... even more so when you can manage it independent of circumstances (which I find really hard)   :))

Peace definitely isn't the literal absence of noise or circumstance, is it?

I agree, it's better to aim high -
"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:."
(from Kipling's "If")

Exactly.