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A Quote by Viktor E. Frankl on success and happiness

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 E. Frankl : Jewish psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, founder of Logotherapy & author of "Man's Search for Meaning"
Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Page: Intro
Contributed by: Brian Johnson. More quotes added by Brian from this | all sources
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KATE CHINWE said

Thank you very much VIKTOR.
    Your  article is a very delicious food for me.
Many  a times one is very ancious and in a hurry to achieve the success earlier than time allows it ,and in the process , everything collaps.Imagin when  you enter into a relationship , only for  your own selfish goal .  Do you have time to wait  for  TIME to work out  WHAT ?

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