There are people who are full of serenity that they seem to live in an eternal springtime. Nothing annoys or troubles them; they are always calm, agreeable, patient and self-controlled.
Are these the people whom we call happy? Yes, and intelligent too: intelligent not because of talent or ability, but because they have acquired the precise slant on life.
They are the people who fight because life itself is a continuous battle and they carry their crosses without complaining because such is the will of God. They are the people who undertake great obligations, for the fulfillment of one's duty is the only preservative against the unrealities of imagination. And in carrying out their duty, they forget themselves in order to think only of others: they themselves have little need of anything because their life is uncomplicated. They forget their own immense worries in order to relieve the small troubles of others and they make light of their own serious sicknesses so as to nurse the mild indisposition of another.
And in doing so, they are surrounded by gratitude and affection. Thus they feel a sense of satisfaction that relieves the burdens of life. These are the people who never grow old: not even when their hair turns white. This the secret of youth!
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