As a general rule, we’re all the world’s worst observers of ourselves. - Mark Manson

The past isn’t as good as you remember, the future isn’t as bad as you fear, and the present is never as clear as it seems.

Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect.

Most people correctly identify a person like Jimmy as a raging narcissistic ass-hat. That’s because he’s pretty blatant in his delusionally high self-regard. What most people don’t correctly identify as entitlement are those people who perpetually feel as though they’re inferior and unworthy of the world. Because construing everything in life so as to make yourself out to be constantly victimized requires just as much selfishness as the opposite. It takes just as much energy and delusional self-aggrandizement to maintain the belief that one has insurmountable problems as that one has no problems at all.