“One has as a definition of happiness, the process of overcoming not unknowable obstacles toward a known goal or the momentary contemplation of the completed task. It can be seen that this is a definition for happiness and, indeed, this definition works. But courage is necessary if the individual is to be happy. …
“There are three ways of handling a problem: one is to attack it, directly or indirectly; one is to flee from it, directly or indirectly; and one is to neglectit. It is a matter of reason which method the individual selects to handle which problem. Continuous attack bluntly and directly on a problem is not necessarily a courageous address, but may only be an angry and destructive address. A persistent address to the problem, however, requires courage, since one of the components of courage is duration of effort.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the book Science of Survival, chapter Courage Level. Page 161.
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