I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do.
Robert GreeneBe brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
Robert GreeneIt is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
Robert GreeneNobody that I know really likes the feeling of having no power and not being able to influence people. But most of us aren't too conscious of what we are trying to do and get that control and that power so people end up sort of playing all kinds of unconscious manipulative games or they're sort of half aware, they have an idea of a strategy or goal they want to use and they think about it. But then in the heat of the moment, it kind of all flies out the window.
Robert Greene