Schopenhauer doesn't strike me as the best role model, he seems a bit of a misanthrope:
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While in Berlin, Schopenhauer was named as a defendant in an action at law initiated by a woman named Caroline Marquet. She asked for damages, alleging that Schopenhauer had pushed her. According to Schopenhauer's court testimony, she deliberately annoyed him by raising her voice while standing right outside his door. Marquet alleged that the philosopher had assaulted and battered her after she refused to leave his doorway. Her companion testified that she saw Marquet prostrate outside his apartment. Because Marquet won the lawsuit, Schopenhauer made payments to her for the next twenty years.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
If one tells one's secrets, they can lose their hold on us and dissipate; we don't have to use all that energy to contain them. What "good" are they to you that you protect them like gold? They are in the past and fairly worthless except as you designate them in your own mind. I **** in my pants in 2nd grade and the teacher had to sniff me out! Very humiliating at the time. So? That's not who I am now and "why" that happened is mine and makes sense to me and who I am now; you can't hurt me with that knowledge of my past.