Often the people we admire the most discovered their greatness and
genuine happiness when dealing with the darkest times of their lives (Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhi, Martin Luther King).
Christopher McCandless is attributed with scribbling the words «
happiness only real
when shared» above the Doctor Zhivago passage: «And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is
genuine life, and that an unshared
happiness is not
happiness...»