“If it were up to me, all boys would come with a label: Failure to take in small doses may result in irrational behavior, poor judgment, and estrangement from one's friends.”
“For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in order to be happy; tranquility results from replacing our irrational judgments with rational ones”
“If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes...it cuts its own throat.”
“Thinking drives behaviors. Behaviors drive action. Action drives results. No tool can fix poor thinking.”
“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.”
“You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.”