What determines your success isn’t, “What do you want to enjoy?” The relevant question is, “What pain do you want to sustain?” The path to happiness … - Mark Manson

"What determines your success isn't, "What do you want to enjoy?" the relevant question is, "What pain do you want to sustain?

The past isn’t as good as you remember, the future isn’t as bad as you fear, and the present is never as clear as it seems.

The more people there are who proclaim themselves victims over tiny
infractions, the harder it becomes to see who the real victims actually are.

But then there are those people who overidentify with their emotions. Everything is justified for no other reason than they felt it. “Oh, I broke your windshield, but I was really mad; I couldn’t help it.” Or “I dropped out of school and moved to Alaska just because it felt right.”
Decision-making based on emotional intuition, without the aid of reason to keep it in line, pretty much always sucks.
You know who bases their entire lives on their emotions? Three-year-old kids. And dogs. You know what else three-year-olds and dogs do? Shit on the carpet.