Most of your doubts are imaginary. Most of your limitations are self-imposed. Also: most of your excuses suck. - Mark Manson

Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience

Your ancestors survived centuries of floods, wars, famine, slavery, and plagues for you to sit on the toilet and compare your life to people on the internet you’ve never met. Be grateful.

that rather than attempting to implement, often through lethal force, their conceptual self across the world, people should question their conceptual self and become more comfortable with the reality of their own death. Becker called this “the bitter antidote,” and