accept the fact that your mind works by choice, not automatically, and that your life depends on choosing to think. learn to trust your mind and to act by your own independent reason, not on the basis of authority. seek moral perfection in the unbreached exercise of rationality. learn to distinguish errors of knowledge from moral evil. choose happiness as your moral purpose and give it your full commitment. learn to value yourself by rejecting humility as a virtue and seeking pride. give help to others when deserved, but not on the basis of need alone, or when demanded as a right.



fight for this world, in the name of the best within you. you will win when you are ready to pronounce this oath: "i swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that i will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

-ayn rand-