Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.
Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.
So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
Singapore is the happiest place in Asia
L. A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco, and Joan broke it off with me, and I needed a place to live. I'd been divorced. And I needed to write movies and TV shows to earn a living. Alimony. All that. So I figured what the hell, I'll go back to L. A.
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.