If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end up nutritionally, financially and morally bankrupt.

Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgments. To a tree, there’s no concept of right or wrong or good or bad. You’re born, you have a whole set of sensory experiences… and then you die. How you choose to interpret that is up to you. And you do have that choice.

Modern society will shame you for earning money, shame you for being happy, shame you for being raised well, shame you for having children, and ultimately, shame you for existing. It isn’t just religion that controls you by declaring you a sinner.

It’s kind of a disease – social media is making celebrities of all of us and celebrities are the most miserable people in the world.

Humans are always signaling. Rather than really looking at yourself, you’re looking at how other people look at you.

Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change. Inside suffering is the seed of change.

You have social statisticians, scientists, and researchers in lab coats, literally the best minds of our generation figuring out how to addict you to the news. And if you fall for it, if you get addicted. your brain will get destroyed. 

When you look at the greatest artists and creators, they have this ability to start over that nobody else does.

If raising children was less rewarding than not doing it, the human race would have gone extinct.

Is it so important to me that I be unhappy unless this goes my way?

We are biological machines programmed to survive and replicate. Happy is anti-evolution.

On what he wants to be remembered for: Don’t care. I’ll be dead.

Self-image is the prison. Other people are the guards.

Guilt is society’s voice speaking in your head.

More drugs are taken to quiet the mind than to heal the body.

People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing

Never confuse motion with action.

To the rational animal the same act is at once according to nature and according to reason.

Whatever man you meet with, immediately say to yourself: “What opinions has this man about good and bad?”

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Passions stem from frustrated desire.

To have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years. For what more will you see?

Since the greatest part of what we say and do is unnecessary, dispensing with such activities affords a man more leisure and less uneasiness.