Wisdom Quotes for Personal Growth and Daily Success

The antidote to the suffering and the malevolence is to take on more responsibility for themselves and for other people. That's aspirational

If you are radically left and you are playing the identity politics game there is actually no such thing as free speech because you are only the mouthpiece of your group whether you know it or not

Where is the meaning to be found?

Life is hard. It's tainted by malevolence and betrayal. That can make you bitter. You need a meaning to offset that. Where is the meaning to be found? Not in rights, not in impulsive pleasure but in responsibility. You take responsibility for yourself so you take care of yourself.
If you're good at it you have some excess left over to take care of your damn family.
If you're good at both of those then you have some excess left over to take care of your community. Those are heavy burdens. You pick up the burdens and you find that's meaningful.
The best way to pick up the burden is to continually improve yourself. And that's where the meaning is to be found. That meaning is in the continual self transcendence. That's letting your old self die and the new self be reborn

If you really want to help somebody / motivated idiot

If you really want to help somebody, change their life you have to start changing their mind, change their philosophy. Change how they think. Somebody said - well just motivation that'll do. The answer is - NO, motivation won't do it. If a guy's an idiot and you motivate him you got a motivated idiot