Is Your Dream Worth the Pain?
3 min readMay 24, 2024
My paternal grandfather kept a regular journal. He also held onto things of particular interest to him. Some time after his passing in 2011, my dad was searching through grandpa’s things and found a time-worn piece of paper with a quote scrawled across it in my grandpa’s handwriting:
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but…