Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and
make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like
happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the
unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater
than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other
than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you
have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to
what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the
best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the
long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely
because you had forgotten to think about it.
- Victor Frankl
When I heard a friend speak of her fabulous trip to Greece, I grew envious.
And then I realised there was nothing to envy for we always see the greener parts on the other side.
Most of us are doomed to mediocrity, but there is nothing wrong with it.
We will never do the best things we hear of and read of and see... we will always do that which we are able to and allow ourselves to.
One should look back at life as though it has already been lived and once you do that acknowledge that you are about to act as wrongly now as you did the first time. - Frankl again.
