Compare yourself to who you were yesterday,

So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.

Every parent therefore needs to learn to tolerate the momentary anger or even hatred directed towards them by their children, after necessary corrective action has been taken, as the capacity of children to perceive or care about long-term consequences is very limited.

the philosopher Nietzsche, perhaps the most astute critic ever to confront Christianity, considered New Testament God the worst literary crime in Western history.

the source of ideas, the mysterious realm of gestation and birth.

rules should not be multiplied beyond necessity. Alternatively stated, bad laws drive out respect for good laws.

Take the case of the three-year-old who has not learned to share. She displays her selfish behaviour in the presence of her parents, but they’re too nice to intervene. More truthfully, they refuse to pay attention, admit to what is happening, and teach her how to act properly. They’re annoyed, of course, when she won’t share with her sister, but th

RULE 3 MAKE FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT THE BEST FOR YOU

to the best of my ability I will act in a manner that leads to the alleviation of unnecessary pain and suffering.