Points To Ponder

“If people want happiness so badly, why don’t they attempt to understand their false beliefs? First, because it never occurs to them to see them as false or even as beliefs. They see them as facts and reality, so deeply have they been programmed.”

“Write your obituary, then work backwards to live it.”

“There are two types of stability: active and passive … People get in trouble when they confuse the two types of stability. Relationships, for example, require attention and care. If you assume that your relationship is passively stable, you’ll wake up one day to divorce papers.”

“If you find the right balance between desperation and fear you can make people do anything.”

“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.”

“Humor can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”

“Your calendar is a better measure of success than your bank account.”

“Better to get your dopamine from improving your ideas than having them validated. “

“Your capacity for gratitude is inversely proportional to your sense of entitlement.”

“The thing that is least perceived about wealth is that all pleasure in money ends at the point where economy becomes unnecessary. The man who can buy anything he covets, without any consultation with his banker, values nothing that he buys.”