Real Success

I know someone who reads my blog and who seems to need some support, and perhaps some encouragement, to take the talent given and use this time to embark on new opportunities.  However, this person also needs some reminders, so if the following applies to you you'll know it, and even if it doesn't, perhaps you will appreciate the words anyhow.

You can try to convince yourself that wealth and success can create happiness, but the pleasure they supply is only a short-lived psychological condition, not real happiness.  Real happiness comes from a life well-lived. -- David Baird

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness.  Thomas Jefferson

And perhaps my favorite....

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance for life and what it brings. --Arthur Rubenstein (1886-1982)