“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 by pursued; it must ensure, as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.”
Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph.D., (March 26, 1905 – September 2, 1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.
Viktor Frankl is the author of the book Man’s Search for Meaning, which chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate at Auschwitz in WW2 and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living.
Viktor Frankl is one of the key figures in existential therapy.