You’re not going to live forever. With the years ahead of you, why not start now to concentrate on making your life as meaningful, free, exciting, and joyous as possible?

You can be free without changing the world. You can live your life as you want to live it — no matter what others decide to do with their lives.

Again, the question to be asked is: Why did they permit it? Why did they work in such miserable conditions? The only conceivable answer is that they wanted to. Individuals left their farms and other occupations and migrated to the factories because it was an improvement over what was available to them before.

If you want to find someone who is much like yourself in attitude, tastes, and interests, you have to look where such a person is likely to be found. And you can’t expect him to recognize you if you hide your identity behind a mask in order to get along with the people you’re with.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

And you’re in the Identity Trap when you allow others to convince you that you don’t even have a right to challenge these things.

You’re not likely to get entangled in the Emotional Trap if you recognize your emotions, respect them, create plans to satisfy them, and carry out those plans — always allowing for changes in you, as well as in the world.

We could divide them into two groups labeled “selfish” and “unselfish,” but I don’t think that would prove anything. For the thief and the humanitarian each have the same motive — to do what he believes will make him feel good.

Each time she’d made one of those decisions, she was sure she was escaping a difficult price, while in reality she was only adding to the price she’d have to pay someday.