Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist.
Self knowledge is always bad news.
not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.
The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.