success

This will always be your struggle whether you are twenty-one or fifty-one. I know this from experience. When I quit the New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again. But I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms.... See more
James Clear • “1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech”

“For me, success is not a public thing. It’s a private thing. It’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets.” - Toni Morrison
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
-Herodotus
The idea of appearing to do something - you get the same level of satisfaction if you know that someone believes you’re accomplishing something as you do from actually accomplishing something and so it’s easy to get trapped in that loop and so you never get there because you’re too busy sharing that you’re getting somewhere instead of actually... See more