An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive in the long run.

A spiteful one is the least comfortable.

Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Depression was merely anger without enthusiasm.

Those with a miserable attitude rarely move the needle of the world toward progress.

Life without meaning, hope, and love breeds a coldhearted, mean-spirited outlook that destroys the individual and others.

The irony was quite comprehensively hideous.

Passion looks like anger to people who aren’t passionate about anything.

As the passions are the springs of most of our actions, a state of apathy has come to signify a sort of moral inertia, the absence of all activity or energy. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.

There is nothing cool about “used to be cool.

Unlike critical thinking, that pillar of reason and necessary counterpart to hope, [cynicism] is inherently uncreative, unconstructive, and spiritually corrosive.

This tired abstract anger; inarticulate passive opposition; always the same thing in dublin

The masochist bullies the sadist into action. The most passive person is actually an aggressor. Every day, just you living means the misery and death of plants and animals- and even some people. "Slaughterhouses, factory farms, sweatshops," she says, "like it or not, that's what your money buys."