“It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.”

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.

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

We, humans, are so tortured by not properly guessing what will make us happy.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

The day of individual happiness has passed.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.