Quotes

I have been reading quotes on goals.  It is a really random thing, but some ring a bell with me.  Sometimes I find it humorous (that is meant to be) and at other times what is said resonates as applicable to my life.
I found something a Lily Tomlin said to be humorous. “I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.”  When I think of it, even the worst have desirable traits.  It is how those traits are used that determines if the life is worth imitating.  I can be disciplined and destructive or disciplined and a giver.  Two leaders in the news come to mind.  One I aspire to be like, and the other is to me a lesson in what not to do.  So I reckon Lily Tomlin is right.  Mentors are good but specifics determine outcome.
I read another one from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. “…it’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life.”  I must admit I am big on that sort of one.  To me both the journey and the destination are important.  I do not adhere to a belief that life needs to be austere and lacking interest or fun to be meaningful.  In fact, I think the exact opposite.  To me life is abundant, and I have been given so much to enjoy.
Yet it is a quote by someone I consider to be my favourite author that I adhere to in relation to life.  C.S.Lewis said, “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in.  Aim at earth and you will get neither.”
For me that is the bottom line of goal setting.  This earth is a closed environment with finite resources.  I have no desire to imagine the finite is infinite.  To me only the infinite is infinite so that is the place in which I want my goals to be anchored.