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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.

Man Can Only Find Meaning For His Existence In Something Outside Himself.

Once An Individual's Search For Meaning Is Successful, It Not Only Renders Him Happy But Also Gives Him The Capability To Cope With Suffering

Sports Allow Men To Build Up Situations Of Emergency. What He Then Demands Of Himself Is Unnecessary Achievement - And Unnecessary Sacrifice. He Artificially Creates The Tension That He Has Been Spared By Affluent Society.

It Did Not Really Matter What We Expected From Life, But Rather What Life Expected From Us. We Needed To Stop Asking About The Meaning Of Life, And Instead To Think Of Ourselves As Those Who Were Being Questioned By Life—daily And Hourly. Our Answer Must Consist, Not In Talk And Meditation, But In Right Action And In Right Conduct. Life Ultimately Means Taking The Responsibility To Find The Right Answer To Its Problems And To Fulfill The Tasks Which It Constantly Sets For Each Individual.