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If you become great, then you can become happy. if you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

-Ivan Lendl

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If You Become Great, Then You Can

Ivan Lendl

If you become great, then you can become happy. if you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

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The only idea man can affix to the name of god, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. and, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. it is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. it is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.

So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. i'm not happy. i don't know what's wrong. if i just had another job, i could be happy. if i just get married, i would be happy. well if i just wasn't married, i would be happy. well, if i just had some kids, i'll be happy. i'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. if i had a bigger house, i would be happy. well, i got a big house. now if i just had a maid to clean, i'd be happy. well, now if i just had a maid i could get along with better, i'd be happy.

Oh god, are there so many of them in our land! students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.

Life is difficult. this is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. it is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

The first commandment of economics is: grow. grow forever. companies get bigger. national economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. people should want more, make more, earn more, spend more - ever more. the first commandment of the earth is: enough. just so much and no more. just so much soil. just so much water. just so much sunshine. everything born of the earth grows to its appropriate size and then stops.

It's difficult to parent one kid, let alone five! it's insane. it's this strange, overwhelming mess that i would not trade for anything. i think it's more difficult in new york city. it's not like we can hop in the minivan and go somewhere. i don't own a car. it's chaos anywhere. being a parent is difficult. being a son and a daughter is difficult. it's a human relationship.

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