Virtue is Intolerant: On Wise Restraints and Cultivation

“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding you have fastened around your noon hour?”
Khalil Gibran

Is happiness the ability to fulfill desires without any obstruction? Is a good life one that is free from impediments? Should we seek to actualize every whim?