Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you..

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak..

If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because th….

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase..

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it..

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to ch….

The man who knows his limitations, has none..

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. Pe….

If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's th….

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship..

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words..

If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it mak….

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything..

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer….

Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark….

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who ….

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people a….

Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two a….

The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and ev….

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. ….