Humans may be wired to pursue happiness, but we’re not too well equipped to experience it.

Painter Vincent Van Gogh on pushing yourself:

"I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it." 

Don't wait to start writing until you have something to say. Start writing so you can find out what you have to say.

You first idea is rarely your best idea. It can take a lot of reps before you discover something worth keeping.

Elsewhereism is the urge to always seek a better elsewhere – whether that’s a different job, partner or continent. It’s what drives progress. But it can also lead to unhappiness. If someone is always looking for a better elsewhere, they are never appreciating the qualities of the here-and-now.

hedonic treadmill: we’re always running toward what we think will make us happier, and always ending up back where we started.

‘It does allow people to escape from the oppressiveness of the “I”,’ says Seligman.

"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest”.  - Napoleon Hill

The point of wealth, after all, is optionality.

“Be big enough to admit mistakes,
smart enough to profit from them,
strong enough to correct them.”
-John C. Maxwell

Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

— Mark Twain

Happiness comes from contribution, not consumption.

    “There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.” — Bette Davis 🥂

i am building sandcastles for people who don't care

Learn to let go, or be prepared to be dragged.

The more we partake of each other’s presence, the more human we become, and remain.

I love this description of addiction/compulsion: when you can’t get enough of the thing you don’t want.

“Most people die at 25, we just don’t bury them until they’re 70.”

“Multi-culture is the real culture of the world — a pure race doesn’t exist.”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Wherever your center lies, know it, name it, stick to it, and believe in it.

being shy was merely thinking of oneself, rather than wanting to make other people happy.

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.” ―Robert Greene, Mastery

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

    The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

    ― Carl Jung

Most people struggling emotionally don’t want someone to fix their pain, they went to feel understood.