Monday, August 20, 2007

Life = Mastering hardships

"A happy life consists in the mastery of hardships." Helen Keller

Author and activist Helen Keller was both deaf and blind for virtually her entire life (she lost those sensory faculties following an illness before she was 2 years old), so how she might have defined "hardship" no doubt differs drastically from the definitions of most other people.

Despite this, she learned to read five languages in braille and at the age of 24, she graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College.

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