I'm increasingly convinced the key to life is simply being yourself. When you hide your personality, you attract high maintenance relationships. ㅤ S… - Mark Manson

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

When we feel that we’re choosing our problems, we feel empowered. When we feel that our problems are being forced upon us against our will, we feel victimized and miserable.

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.