“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”

Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.

The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.

Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.

You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.

Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.

There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.

We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.

That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.

The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.

You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.

We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.

Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.

There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.

It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.

It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.

Comparisons are easily done, once you’ve had a taste of perfection.

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

The way your inner-light glows is different compared to others. And that alone, makes you a million times more valuable.

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

There are billions of people in the world & I keep comparing everyone with you.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.