Dylan O'Sullivan Quotes

If you're not losing faith in humanity all the time, you're just not paying attention, but none of that counts, the only thing that counts is whether you can regain it, again and again

You prefer to cling on to your potential as a pristine hypothetical, that's why you never let yourself try

the antidote to depression can be summed up in four words: think less, do more

Many spend years in pain just to avoid a few days of embarrassment, don't do that

The end goal of all things is to be remembered fondly, life, work, art, anything, if future generations smile at what you left behind, that is the sign that your time on earth was spent well

Your education prepared you for a world that no longer exists

It's not about winning, it's about sleeping soundly in the knowledge that you gave everything you had

Many never put pen to paper for fear of ruining the perfectly white page of their life, so they leave it blank

a death with no life behind it

The true danger of irony is that every glory of life, from work to family to romance to self development, comes down to a sincerity of effort

Whatever energy you save in avoidance you spend in regret

Your mood is your decision

Don’t worry about being happy, just focus on cultivating the conditions for its arrival: walk somewhere, run someplace, eat something healthy, lift something heavy, read something good, write something down

happiness will take care of itself

The cure for procrastination is the constant contemplation of the proximity of death

You aren't feeding inspiration by swallowing endless podcasts and videos, you're choking it, silence is the oxygen of creativity, ideas can't breathe without it

At least once a day, find a quiet corner where you can turn off the world and listen to yourself, you'll slowly lose yourself if you don't, and you won't even notice it happening