Viktor Frankl
I am currently reading the book Man’s Search for Meaning
“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 precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.”
“Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.”
“Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answers to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”
“From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two – the “race” of the decent man and the “race” of the indecent man.”
“I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of a concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones.”
“Whoever was still alive had reason for hope.”
Life, keep it simple and live it
Josh