Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. Man's Search For Meaning

In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. The Alchemist

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. Essays