Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.