The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.
Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
The bigger the government, the greater the corruption.
The more that you expect, the less happy you will be – because if the expectations are realized you won’t be grateful.
When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate.
Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It’s what enables people to support the ‘underdog,’ even if the underdog is evil.
Prayer is not asking God to do something, it’s asking God to help YOU do something.
All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents.
Happiness is a moral obligation.
A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others.
I don’t judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior.
Although images of perfection in people’s personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies – utopian images – can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior.
The biggest battle in life is with yourself.
I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed.
The more passions you have the happier you’ll be.
The Left neither cares about prosperity nor jobs. It cares about equality.
If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful.