We are defined by what we choose to reject. And if we reject nothing we essentially have no identity at all - Mark Manson

This fixation on the positive- on what's better, what's superior- only serves to remind us over and over again of what we are not, of what we lack, of what we should have been but failed to be. After all, no truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she's happy. She just is.

people who are terrified of what others think about them are actually terrified of all the shitty things they think about themselves being reflected back at them.)

The quickest way to ruin your life is to try to make everything easy.