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C.S. Lewis is said to have remarked, "The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career."
There is a great difference between successfulness and fruitfulness. Success comes from strength, control, and respectability. A successful person has the energy to create something, to keep control over its development, and to make it available in large quantities. Success brings many rewards and often fame. Fruits, however, come from weakness and vulnerability. And fruits are unique. A child is the fruit conceived in vulnerability, community is the fruit born through shared brokenness, and intimacy is the fruit that grows through touching one another's wounds. Let's remind one another that what brings us true joy is not successfulness but fruitfulness. -- Henri Nouwen Mitt Romney referenced holocaust survivor, Victor Frankl, in a commencement speech at Liberty University. "Dr. Viktor Frankl observed in a book for the ages, it is not a matter of what we are asking of life, but rather what life is asking of us. How often the answer to our own troubles is to help others with theirs." I couldn't find this quote in any context but Romney's speech. "It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true.", Mark Twain Benjamin Franklin once said "The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten" As they say, any complex problem has an answer that is simple, compelling, and wrong. Simple is rarely right. Compelling is the stuff of demagogues, and wrong is easily confused by the previous two. Tom Babb. This maxim has been attributed at various times to Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, and Peter Drucker as a wake-up call to managers who mistakenly think that making a change in just one part of a complex problem will cure the ails of an entire system. Return to wisdom
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