We think we will regret taking risks, but we are far more likely to regret playing it safe. Failure fades. Missed opportunities do not. - Mark Manson

When most people envision giving no fucks whatsoever, they imagine a kind of serene indifference to everything, a calm that weathers all storms. They imagine and aspire to be a person who is shaken by nothing and caves in to no one. There’s a name for a person who finds no emotion or meaning in anything: a psychopath. Why you would want to emulate a psychopath, I have no fucking clue.

We don’t always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.

Most people tell themselves that if they felt better, they’d do the thing—when it’s actually doing the thing that makes you feel better.