“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Your desire is not to become someone else, but to be more thoroughly yourself, realizing your true potential. You see your character as the clay that you will work with, slowly transforming your very weaknesses into strengths.
There is nothing worse than feeling dependent on other people.
Dependency makes you vulnerable to all kinds of emotions—betrayal, disappointment, frustration—that play havoc with your mental balance.
JOHN ADAMS: "The Bible contains the most profound Philosophy, the most perfect Morality, and the most refined Policy, that was ever conceived upon Earth."