A better life starts with a better filter. Change who and what you allow into your world, and the peace will follow. - Mark Manson

In the long run, completing a marathon makes us happier than eating a chocolate cake. Raising a child makes us happier than beating a video game. Starting a small business with friends while struggling to make ends meet makes us happier than buying a new computer. These activities are stressful, arduous, and often unpleasant. They also require withstanding problem after problem. Yet they are some of the most meaningful moments and joyous things we’ll ever do. They involve pain, struggle, even anger and despair — yet once they’re accomplished, we look back and get all misty-eyed telling our grandkids about them.

Shitty values involve tangible external goals outside of our control. Better values are process-oriented.

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.