Well it also helps to be financially stable and blessed with good health to maintain that positive attitude. She had personal discipline and ambition, family support, work that she loved, a happy marriage, wanted children and a circle of good friends. Fame was the icing on the cake.
Still, I think some folks are born with (or acquire) a tougher internal intestinal fortitude that sustains them through the inevitable rough times. Live long enough and you lose parents, siblings, sometimes children, close friends, maybe a job, and face acute or chronic illness or a gradual decline in health as the years pass. That's life. The trick is to continue enlarging your circle of friends, keep moving, get up in the morning with something in mind to do (even if it's just laundry), maintain an interest in what's going on in the world around you, and put yourself out there every day.
Speaking of which, I gotta get dressed and get going myself.........
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