You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do..

No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity i….

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….

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else..

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.

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. ….

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

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you..

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

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

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….

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….

The man who knows his limitations, has none..