“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. And you’re the only one that will know that.” — John Wooden

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” — Roy T. Bennett

“To laugh often and much: To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Success is having everything you need and doing everything you want. It is not doing everything you need to have everything you want.” — Jacob Lund Fisker

“Extreme success is not going to make you happy. In fact, success amplifies who you already are and how you already feel.” — Mark Manson

“Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.” — Elbert Hubbard

“Real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.” — Anwar Sadat

“The ultimate success metric is whether you get what you want out of life. But that’s harder than it sounds because it’s easy to try to copy someone who wants something you don’t.” — Morgan Housel

“The Inner Ring” by C.S. Lewis ¹

As long as you are governed by that desire you will never get what you want. You are trying to peel an onion; if you succeed there will be nothing left. Until you conquer the fear of being an outsider, an outsider you will remain.” ²

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我曾經有過許許多多的夢想，但是我更想要成功，我常在夢想和現實中擺盪著。在一次又一次的失敗後，我告訴自己不要為世俗定義的「成功」而活，要爲自己真正相信的 眞理 而活。不要只想當個出鋒頭的英雄，要學習當個配角，一個傾聽者，積極追隨許多前行者完成夢想，也積極幫助需要幫助的年輕人實現理想。我的故事將從我的 失敗經驗 開始。當我能完全臣服於自己的失敗，洞穿了自己的脆弱和不足之後，反而成為一個完整可愛的平凡普通人。這是這些年我越來越清楚的事情。

“The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.” — Naval Ravikant

1. 想：知道自己想要/不想要什麼
2. 做：有能力真正地得到/避免自己想要/不想要 の 東西

Life is a game of awareness and action: Awareness to understand something’s importance and action to execute on that importance.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”

「我們最大的恐懼，並非自己不夠好，而是遠比想像中更強大。我們最怕的不是失敗，而是做自己的成功。」³

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, “Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody.” … [My dark side says,] I am no good… I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the “Beloved.” Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The Trap of Success: Success leads to freedom.