Your triggers are your teachers—every painful reaction points to some work left to be done. - Mark Manson

Humans are attracted to each other’s rough edges.

People hold on to arbitrary certainties and try to enforce them on others, often violently, in the name of some made-up righteous cause.

The desire to avoid rejection at all costs, to avoid confrontation and conflict, the desire to attempt to accept everything equally and to make everything cohere and harmonize, is a deep and subtle form of entitlement. Entitled people, because they feel as though they deserve to feel great all the time, avoid rejecting anything because doing so might make them or someone else feel bad. And because they refuse to reject anything, they live a valueless, pleasure-driven, and self-absorbed life. All they give a fuck about is sustaining the high a little bit longer, to avoid the inevitable failures of their life, to pretend the suffering away.