Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for re….
Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and defi….
It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that ….
Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony..
None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americ….
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsib….
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness..
Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think o….
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies ….
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that..
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves..
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness..
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self..
What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps he had ….
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self..
Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens..
Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers..
Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with sig….
I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom..
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - '….
That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority..