That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. - David Foster Wallace

You’ll stop worrying what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.

You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.

I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

In some respects all this variety is probably good, productive of difference and dialogue and so on. But it can also be confusing and stressful for the average citizen. Short of signing on to a particular mass ideology and patronizing only those partisan news sources that ratify what you want to believe, it is increasingly hard to determine which sources to pay attention to and how exactly to distinguish real information from spin.

That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.