I choose to feel peace.⁣
I choose to feel relief.⁣
I choose to feel soothed.⁣
I choose to feel ease.⁣
I choose to feel calm.⁣
I choose to feel that everything is ok.⁣
I choose to feel happy.⁣
I choose to feel secure.⁣
I choose to feel sure.⁣
I choose to feel effortless.⁣
I choose to feel harmony.⁣
I choose to feel focused.⁣
I choose to feel clarity.⁣
I choose to feel energized.⁣
I choose to feel confident.⁣
I choose to feel inspired.⁣
I choose to feel perfection.⁣
I choose to feel present.⁣
I choose to feel trust.⁣
I choose to feel satisfied.⁣
I choose to feel powerful.

The altruist ethics is based on a “malevolent universe” metaphysics, on the theory that man, by his very nature, is helpless and doomed—that success, happiness, achievement are impossible to him—that emergencies, disasters, catastrophes are the norm of his life and that his primary goal is to combat them.

As the simplest empirical refutation of that metaphysics—as evidence of the fact that the material universe is not inimical to man and that catastrophes are the exception, not the rule of his existence—observe the fortunes made by insurance companies.

-Ayn Rand