Profound Patrick

Ok...just finished studying up on Swayze's life story and two thumbs up for meeting all of my vacation literature standards (quick, easy, and allows me to escape my world for a bit). But lo and behold, it also offered this nugget:

The easiest way to destroy people is to give them exactly what they want. You might not realize it at the time, but the struggle to achieve something is, in many ways, much more satisfying than actually getting it. The very act of striving is what keeps you alive, and it keeps you grounded. But then, when the thing you've been fighting for is suddenly in your grasp, it's all too easy to look around and say - is that all there is?

Hmmm...interesting. The Brothers Karamazov it is not, but it did make me think.