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Success is getting and achieving what you want. happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

-Bernard Meltzer

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Success Is Getting And Achieving What You

Bernard Meltzer

Success is getting and achieving what you want. happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

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I've learned from my experience that desire is 80% of achievement. that if you really, really want something, if you really, really, really want to do something, that the vast majority of achieving it is wanting it. i mean, really wanting it. not a preference, and not, "gee, i hope this." i mean really wanting it. it is the desire that makes you do what you have to do to achieve.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

I think this is when most people give up on their stories. they come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. but they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. they can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. none of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. they take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. in the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. it's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. getting happy, okay? getting happy.

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. i think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. we use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.

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 of it.

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