The most disciplined people aren't fighting their emotions; they've just rearranged them so that doing the "right" thing feels easy. - Mark Manson

If Jane has to choose between 2 boxes of cereal, and Mike can choose from 20 boxes, Mike does not have more freedom than Jane. He has more variety. <...> Variety is not freedom.

"When I was in high school, my math teacher Mr. Packwood used to say, "If you're stuck on a problem, don't sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don't know what you're doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head"."

To not give a fuck is to stare down life’s most terrifying and difficult challenges and still take action.