Lightning rarely strikes. Instead, achievement is often the result of stepwise progress, of doing something increasingly difficult until you get the result you seek.

The craft of your career comes in picking the right hills. Hills just challenging enough that you can barely make it over. A series of hills becomes a mountain, and a series of mountains is a career.

-Seth Godin, An endless series of difficult yet achievable hills

“I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to think about it.”

—  Goldie Hawn

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott