Sunday, October 9, 2016

success and happiness

"...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. ...success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it."

                                             -  Viktor Frankl

6 comments:

  1. Wow! This is wonderful! Thank-you for this brilliant quote Lisa!

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    1. Clare, you may also be interested in Lindsey's post here, http://redlettersblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-deepest-secret-of-joy.html
      along the same line of thinking

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    2. Thank-you Lisa. Such a lovely post. I am so pleased I read it.

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  2. I think he's right, but it is certainly a counter message to our culture's insistence to pursue, pursue, pursue.

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    1. Yes. Which means the success that many people have is something they've grabbed for themselves, and not necessarily what God intends for them. (IMHO)

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  3. Yes, the joy comes from the surrender!

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