How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World

The sub-rent should be negotiated to determine a price acceptable to both. Again, if you can’t agree upon a price, then you wouldn’t have been able to agree how much money to spend if you had pooled your assets.

Your ability to get what you want depends upon these considerations: how clearly you recognize the identity of each thing and person you deal with, how well you isolate the relevant factors in any cause-and-effect relationship, and how well you allow for the possibility that other factors might alter the relationship.

His only concern now is to pay the price, repair his damages as quickly as possible, and get onto better things.

Use the years ahead of you to advance the only really important cause that exists — your freedom and happiness.

Any problem he has in facing the truth is his problem. It isn’t your duty to protect him from himself.

Freedom is the opportunity to live your life as you want to live it. And that is possible, even if others remain as they are.

freedom that’s greater than any you’ve known before — freedom from the urge to control others.

Daydream. What did you always dream of doing while you were growing up? Is that still attractive to you now? If not, what do you dream of today? Whatever it may be, take your dreams seriously. Why shouldn’t you at least try to make your life what you want it to be?

When you don’t understand a situation, it helps to stand back for a minute, think of each person involved, and ask yourself, “What is he trying to do? How does he believe he’s furthering his own well-being?” That can make his actions much more understandable and predictable. It doesn’t matter whether his conduct is right or wrong. That’s what he’s