12-02-2009, 02:26 PM
I derive the answers to most of these questions with three things:
1. Perspective
2. This idea:
3. and this idea:
1. Perspective
2. This idea:
Quote:As I’ve traveled across the globe for nearly six decades, I have found that people exhibit remarkable similarities that by no stretch of the imagination can be construed as resulting from culture, history, language, or chance. All people appear motivated by an inbred striving for self-esteem that is in large part fostered by the approval of others(how much money do you spend on things simply to gain the approval of others? -- big house, car, Italian leather shoes, etc)
3. and this idea:
Quote:Sucess is getting what you want and happiness is wanting what you get
"Hamilton is really a Colossus to the anti republican party. Without numbers he is an host within himself. They have got themselves into a defile where they might be finished but too much security on the republican part will give time to his talents and indefatigableness to extricate them. We have had only middling performances to oppose to him. In truth when he comes forward there is nobody but yourself who can meet him. His adversaries having begun the attack he has the advantage of answering them and remains unanswered himself. For God's sake take up your pen and give a fundamental reply to Curtius and Camillas" - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison