The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.
The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.
Smile and the world will think you’re hiding something.
Love is a wonderful thing, but it’s not going to save you.
The question you should be asking isn’t, ‘What do I want?’ It’s, ‘What am I willing to struggle for?’
Don’t hope for a life outcome. Dedicate your life to a process.
The art of really living is saying yes to the spaces in between the nos, the spaces where we do not know.
Our culture today is obsessively focused on unrealistically positive expectations: Be happier. Be healthier. Be the best, better than the rest.
Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience.
If you’re not sure who you are, ask yourself what would be worth sacrificing yourself for.
Do something. Anything. Just don’t sit there doing nothing.
True happiness comes from defining what’s important to you, and then prioritizing accordingly.
The key to living a worthwhile life is knowing what to give a fuck about and embracing the discomfort that comes with it.
Don’t let the pursuit of happiness become a source of misery.
The less you care about what others think, the happier you will be.
Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of the next one.
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
The path to happiness is a path of embracing pain and discomfort.
Failure is the seed of success.
The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about what is true and immediate and important.
We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful.
You don’t have to be bad at something to be good at something else.
The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.
You don’t need to change who you are; you just need to change what you care about.
Happiness is not a goal to be achieved, but a byproduct of living a meaningful life.
The more we care about something, the more we are defined by it.
Happiness is a process, not a destination.
True confidence comes from embracing your limitations and faults.
Pain is part of life, but suffering is a choice.
The key to a happy life is not accumulating more, but appreciating what you already have.
Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them effectively.
The pursuit of pleasure is endless and ultimately unsatisfying. The pursuit of meaning is what brings true fulfillment.
Success is not about achieving a desired outcome, but about striving and growing in the process.
The key to success is not talent or luck, but a willingness to fail and learn from your mistakes.
We often judge ourselves by our intentions, while others judge us by our actions.
Don’t seek happiness. Seek meaning.
The more you pursue external validation, the more empty and insecure you will feel.
Success is not the absence of failure, but the ability to bounce back from it.
We are more influenced by the people closest to us than we realize.
The pursuit of perfection is the enemy of progress.
You can’t control everything that happens to you, but you can control how you react to it.
The key to success is not avoiding failure, but embracing it and learning from it.
The most important words you will ever hear are the ones you say to yourself.
The only limit to your potential is the story you tell yourself about your limitations.
The key to a happy life is not having everything figured out, but being okay with uncertainty.
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