Growth, Happiness, Resilience For Princess

I've been told a madman prophet told this to the listening world —happiness is made where resistance is overcome. I don't know why that, exactly, came to mind, and not "if you're happy and you know it...you know the rest. But his words speak to me of these others which have been placed, just now, in my waiting palms: growth and resilience. I suppose that wild voice shouting down through the ages from the wild mountains of yesteryear speaks of this resilience, even now, that resilience allows for growth to take root, and that it is for happiness that these mighty royal palm trees put their fronds to the sky