We’re apes. We think we’re all sophisticated with our toaster ovens and designer footwear, but we’re just a bunch of finely ornamented apes. - Mark Manson

I came to the startling realization that if there really is no reason to do anything, then there is also no reason to not do anything; that in the face of the inevitability of death, there is no reason to ever give in to one’s fear or embarrassment or shame, since it’s all just a bunch of nothing anyway; and that by spending the majority of my short life avoiding what was painful and uncomfortable, I had essentially been avoiding being alive at all.

If you're afraid that establishing a boundary with someone will upset somebody, that's the evidence that the boundary is needed in the first place.

The true measurement of self-worth is not how a person feels about her positive experiences, but rather how she feels about her negative experiences.