Inspirational Quotes by Stefan Molyneux — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the resolution of conflicts. I have always become closer to my wife and to my friends when we have conflicts and work through them successfully because conflicts will always arise. They are an opportunity for intimacy, self-knowledge, and a greater connection.”

“If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.”

“If you have people who treat you badly in your life, they will be a human shield against people who will treat you well. If that’s not true then we should apply it to marriage and start saying to woman who are being put down or beaten, “you gotta stay with him because he needs you and he has been your husband for 20 years for heaven sakes. You just have to work to love him more and so on.” This is the advice they gave to woman like 200 fucking years ago and it was abusive advice.”

“Theres nothing more efficient than honesty and nothing more powerful than vulnerability because, vulnerability reveals everyone in your life who will abuse power immediately and almost irrevocably.”

“Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.”

“Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.”

“The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.”

“I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.”

“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”

“I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”

“Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.”

“Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”

“The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".”

“Deep connection is the antidote to madness.”

“If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.”

“Excuses are a promise of repetition.”

“The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.”

“Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.”

“We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.”

“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.”

“There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.”

“Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.”

“Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.”

“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.”

“What we do not confront, we inhabit.”

“It’s not the drug that causes the junkie it’s the laws that causes the junkie because of course the drug laws means that he can’t go and get help because he is afraid of being arrested. He also can’t have a normal life because the war on drugs has made drugs so expensive and has made drug contracts unenforceable which means they can only be enforced through criminal violence.”

“If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.”

“There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.”

“Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.”

“To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.”

“What is so often said about the solders of the 20th century is that they fought to make us free. Which is a wonderful sentiment and one witch should evoke tremendous gratitude if in fact there was a shred of truth in that statement but, it's not true. It's not even close to true in fact it's the opposite of truth.”

“SCREW CHILDREN!”

“Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.”

“You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.”

“Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.”

“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.”

“Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.”

“We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.”

“Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.”

“Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.”

“Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.”

“Asshole Proximity Disorder”

“The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.”

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”

“There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.”