To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
What a person *wants* reveals far more truth than what they've already won—because achievements can be accidents of circumstance, while aspirations expose the values they actually hold when no one's watching. A man might own a fortune through inheritance, but if he spends his evenings sketching architectural plans for affordable housing, that's where his real character lives. Gibran's wisdom cuts against our habit of judging people by résumés and trophies; it asks us instead to notice what they're quietly reaching toward, even if they haven't grasped it yet. This matters because it means we've all been getting each other wrong—we've been reading the dust jacket instead of opening the book.
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Viktor Frankl“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you ast...”
Rumi“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
Steve Jobs