The goal of all life is to have a ball.
Even when people act nastily to you, don’t condemn them or retaliate.
Strong feelings are fine; it’s the overreactions that mess us up.
The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.
People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn’t exist.
Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed – such a probabilistic, uncertain world.
People don’t just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
By not caring too much about what people think, I’m able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
I think it’s unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that’s the human condition.
Let’s suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
And just as two wrongs don’t make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven’t got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.
So I’d better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.