Wednesday, September 21, 2011

On tragedy

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach."
Benjamin Mays

3 comments:

Dawn said...

Here! Here!
I love this.
It's so true....I need to remember this.
Although...my list of goals seems to stretch out before me...and tends to overwhelm. I need to focus on one or 2 and then apply this quote- reign it in a little;D

21 Wits said...

You are right no goals= no living....game over.

Somewhere round about said...

used to work with folk who decided that it was safer to have no goals, as that way they wouldn't be disappointed

tough....rewarding...frustrating...and desperatly sad