If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.
It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.
It’s better to do something badly than to not do it at all.
You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
If you can’t understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.
If someone is making everyone around them miserable and you’d like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.
Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated.
