Top 15 Dylan O'Sullivan Quotes

Still hard to believe that access to infinite information made us dumber

Your brain will invent fake problems for you if you don't go out and find real ones

There's something about a soulless job that makes you crave mindless entertainment, and that's the combination that slowly kills you

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

Life is going so fast because you're not injecting enough silence into your days. Spend an hour reading or writing or walking in silence and watch how your day seems to double in duration

Strange things happen to creativity at dusk and dawn, hence so many writers work in the early morning or late at night. The edges of the day are thin places, the conscious mind is not fully awake and the subconscious can bleed through, Arthur Koestler called it "the marshy shore"

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

One day you'll wish you enjoyed right now a little more

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

The act of writing reveals to you, in quite a brutal way, just how many of your thoughts are merely feelings

Whatever energy you save in avoidance you spend in regret

Screens present you with images, but books force you to create them, and the power of that image-creating muscle is the control center of the creativity because the subconscious whispers in images, and if you let your powers of imagination waste away, you won't be able to hear it

A day without a walk is a mistake

Maybe you've consumed enough, maybe it's time to create something

Your education prepared you for a world that no longer exists