“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
Quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use by D.E. Macdonnel (1809) translated from French: Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vi ne consiste pas á être sans passions: il consiste à en être le maître.
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