“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” -Albert Einstein
“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we
waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently
generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the
whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and
carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate
necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing.
So it is—the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have
any lack of it, but are wasteful of it. Just as great and princely wealth is
scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth
however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so
life is amply long for the one who orders it properly.” -Seneca, On the
Shortness of Life
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of the quote above)
“Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe
and America: 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.”
-Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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