A good quote....

From Komar by Lois McMaster Bujold:

"'...Failure, failure was grown familar to me. Comfortable, almost, when I stoped struggling against it. I did not know achievement was so devastating.'
'Huh.' He was leaning back, now, his reader forgotten on his lap, regarding her with hs entire attention. 'Yes...vertigo at apogee, eh? And the reward for a job well done is another job, and what have you done for us lately, and is that all Lieutenant Vorkosigan, and... yes. Achievment is devistating, or at least disorienting, and they don't warn you in advance. It's the sudden change of momentum and direction, I think.'"

Disclaimer I didn't write it (though I wish I had) and I don't own it, but it too true of a sentimate not to share. Buy her books.