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.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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