154. Choice

There is always choice. You can always choose. There are always better and better ways to live. The choice to live better is yours.

153. The Successful Execution of Your Plans

Advance confidently and steadily in the direction of your dreams. Endeavour to live the life that you have imagined. Then you will meet with success unsuspected in the common hours.

152. Voltaire on the Effects of External Events on a Man's Inner State

When a man has spent 3 days in the belly of a whale, he is not as well disposed as when he has been to the opera or the theatre and has dined well in excellent company. Voltaire, The World As it Is.

We can all be adversely affected by the circumstances in which we find ourselves. It is well to recognise this in other people and refrain from asking them for favours etc. whilst they are below par.

151. Voltaire on Perfectionism

If everything is not perfect, everything is tolerable. - Voltaire, The World As It Is.

What Voltaire is saying is that while we must endure some imperfections, we should tolerate them and strive for perfection. Let us not be upset because things are not quite as we would like them to be.