ix He who has a why to live for can endure almost any how. Read some Nietzsche.
xi ¶1 In a way, life is about making choices that improve the choices you make tomorrow.
19 ¶2 Look fit for work. Shave, stand and walk smartly.
44 ¶1 Write something about today that you'll be able to laugh at when the conditions of the story you write no longer apply (i.e., a "look back at this and laugh" story about today."
46 ¶1&2 Count your blessings.
66 ¶1 No one can take away your good attitude.
66 ¶3 Be worthy of your suffering.
68 ¶1 Achieve something through your own suffering today.
68 ¶2 It's never to early to face death with courage and dignity.
71 last¶ Nostalgia deprives us of opportunities to make something positive of the present.
72 ¶2 Every experience has a victory you can make out of it.
73 ¶3 In the future, how do you want to say you used today's suffering as a means to get to that future?
78¶3 Making your suffering count for something is your job; tears prove that you have the courage to suffer.
79 Life has expectations of you that you value.
82 ¶3 What you have experienced, no power on earth can take away from you.
109 ¶2 The meaning of life is responsibility in the formal sense: The ability to respond. Choices.
109 ¶3 Live as if you were already living for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.
110 Change your behavior, change your experiences or change your attitude.
121 ¶3 Diaries and journals make your past exploitable.
123 ¶1 For things you want that you can't directly control, work toward the things you can control for which the thing you can't control is an emergent property, e.g., I can't control whether I catch a fish, but I can work toward waking up early and putting the bait in the water every day, and catching fish is a property that emerges from those actions which I control.
124 ¶2&3 You also can't make bad things happen outside of your control, so trying to make your unwanted, uncontrolled behavior occur takes the wind out of the sails of anxiety. A bad thing isn't your fault if you can't make it happen.
127 Another way of defining paradoxical intention is that it's impossible to fail on purpose, because failing on purpose isn't failure. Failing on purpose is a form of success. Failure to fail is also a form of success. So if you can't succeed, fail on purpose. You can't lose! Failing on purpose is the secret to avoiding failure.
128 ¶2 Etiology = what causes something, used here in the context of what causes a disease.
128 ¶3 Problems don't drive you crazy. FEAR of problems drives you crazy. Fixing the problem fixes the problem. Fixing the fear makes you sane.
128 note 15 Fear is not crazy. Fear, in fact, means you're not crazy.
129 ¶2&3 Feeding a selfless goal starves your fear of attention.
138 ¶1 How can I make pain, guilt and death work for me?
141 ¶2 Volunteering spites the devil.
143 ¶3 Constantly ask "What is the meaning of this?" and "So what?
145 Experience isn't as valuable as achievement but the ROI is greater. For example, thanks to this book I have significant insight on the lessons learned from concentration camps without entering one.
146 ¶1 Do something, feel something, rise above.
148 Suffer as well as possible.