12 Rules for Life

When you have something to say, silence is a lie—and tyranny feeds on lies.

Before you can articulate your own standards of value, you must see yourself as a stranger—and then you must get to know yourself.

What you aim at determines what you see.

You need an inspector. The internal critic—it could play that role, if you could get it on track;

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.

Thinking is listening to yourself.

Because the world is revealed, to an indeterminate degree, through the template of your values

It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.