By Not Caring Too Much About What

You Have Considerable Power To Construct Self-helping Thoughts, Feelings And Actions As Well As To Construct Self-defeating Behaviors. You Have The Ability, If You Use It, To Choose Healthy Instead Of Unhealthy Thinking, Feeling And Acting.

When I Was 16 I Started Keeping A Diary In Which I Recorded My Disagreements With The Famous Philosophers. I Didn't Insist That They Were Wrong, That I Was Right And I Had To Prevail. I Just Agreed And Disagreed With Them. I Thought There Was A High Degree Of Probability That I Was Right And Some Other Thinkers Were Wrong. But I Wasn't Positive About It.

People Don't Just Get Upset. They Contribute To Their Upsetness. They Always Have The Power To Think, And To Think About Their Thinking, And To Think About Thinking About Their Thinking, Which The Goddamn Dolphin, As Far As We Know, Can't Do. Therefore They Have Much Greater Ability To Change Themselves Than Any Other Animal Has.

If The Martians Ever Find Out How Human Beings Think, They'll Kill Themselves Laughing.

Happiness Is Experienced Largely In Striving Towards A Goal, Not In Having Attained Things, Because Our Nature Is Always To Want To Go On To The Next Endeavor.