After all, the only way to overcome pain is to first learn how to bear it. - Mark Manson

Pleasure is a false god. Research shows that people who focus their energy on superficial pleasures end up more anxious, more emotionally unstable, and more depressed. Pleasure is the most superficial form of life satisfaction and therefore the easiest to obtain and the easiest to lose. But pleasure, while necessary in life (in certain doses), isn't, by itself, sufficient. Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect.

People admire strength, but they connect over struggle.

"Many people become so obsessed with being "right" about their life that they never end up actually living it."