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Thinking is listening to yourself

An aim reduces anxiety. Because if you have no aim everything can mean anything or nothing. And either of those two options makes for a tranquil spirit.

Meaning trumps expedience. Meaning gratifies all impulses.

Expedience vs meaning. [Meaning] is the antidote to chaos. It makes everything matter and…everything better.

What’s the difference between the successful and the unsuccessful? The successful sacrifice.

Children must be shaped and formed or they cannot thrive.

We only see what we aim at

… a villain who despairs of his villainy has not become a hero, a hero is something positive, not just the absence of evil

Sometimes when people have a low opinion of their own worth…such people don’t believe that they deserve any better, so they don’t go looking for it. Freud- repetition compulsion.