{"id":186,"date":"2004-01-18T21:34:16","date_gmt":"2004-01-18T21:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/18\/the-meaning-of-it-all\/"},"modified":"2004-01-18T21:34:16","modified_gmt":"2004-01-18T21:34:16","slug":"the-meaning-of-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2004\/01\/the-meaning-of-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of it All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/are.berkeley.edu\/~atanu\/blog\/archives\/000236.html\">Atanu&#8217;s blog<\/a> points me to an excellent quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 &#8211; 1882) on his definition of &#8220;success&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And you thought success meant making more money?!<\/p>\n<p><em>P.S. I have since learned that Emerson was not its writer. The quote may be traceable to a 1905 publication by a Bessie Stanley. Apparently, in a collection of quotations on &#8220;success,&#8221; her poem appeared on the facing page from a quotation which was from Emerson. Either way, I wish more earthlings thought of success in these terms! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post on Atanu&#8217;s blog points me to an excellent quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 &#8211; 1882) on his definition of &#8220;success&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}