Worrying About Dying Will Hardly Help You

By Not Caring Too Much About What People Think, I'm Able To Think For Myself And Propagate Ideas Which Are Very Often Unpopular. And I Succeed.

There's No Evidence Whatsoever That Men Are More Rational Than Women Or That Men Are More Willing To Surrender Their Irrational Beliefs. Both Sexes Seem To Be Equally Irrational.

The Emotionally Sound Person Should Be Able To Take Risks, To Ask Himself What He Really Would Like To Do In Life, And Then To Try To Do This, Even Though He Has To Risk Defeat Or Failure. He Should Be Adventurous (though Not Necessarily Foolhardy); Be Willing To Try Almost Anything Once, Just To See How He Likes It; And Look Forward To Some Breaks In His Usual Life Routines.

Life Is Indeed Difficult, Partly Because Of The Real Difficulties We Must Overcome In Order To Survive, And Partly Because Of Our Own Innate Desire To Always Do Better, To Overcome New Challenges, To Self-actualize. 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.

If People Stopped Looking On Their Emotions As Ethereal, Almost Inhuman Processes, And Realistically Viewed Them As Being Largely Composed Of Perceptions, Thoughts, Evaluations, And Internalized Sentences, They Would Find It Quite Possible To Work Calmly And Concertedly At Changing Them.