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Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.
David Steindl-Rast
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David Steindl-Rast
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 12
Monk
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Theologian
Vienna
Austria
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