If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser things, such as getting into a certain college.
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.
It's so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.
All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
