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“Today’s middle class lives better than did the Royalty of not so long ago, and yet humans today don’t seem very happy.”
― Russ Harris

“Letting the radio play on without giving it much attention is very different from actively trying to ignore it.”
― Russ Harris

“Despite everything you’ve tried over the years, isn’t it a fact that your mind still produces unpleasant pictures?”
― Russ Harris

“The fight-or-flight is often triggered in situations where it is of little or no use to us.”
― Russ Harris

“Any search for a "pain-free existence" is doomed to failure.”
― Russ Harris

“Never set as your goal something that a dead person can do better than you.”
― Russ Harris

“If you’re living a goal-focused life, then no matter what you have, it’s never enough”
― Russ Harris

“Commitment isn’t about being perfect, always following through, or never going astray. Commitment means that when you (inevitably) stumble or get off track, you pick yourself up, find your bearings, and carry on in the direction you want to go.”
― Russ Harris

“Success in life means living by your values.”
― Russ Harris

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina