mortality makes it impossible to ignore the absurdity of living solely for the future. - Oliver Burkeman

Rate your individual acts as good or bad, if you like. Seek to perform as many good ones, and as few bad ones, as possible.

We seek the fulfilment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive.

The goal, it seemed, had become a part of their identity, and so their uncertainty about the goal no longer merely threatened the plan; it threatened them as individuals.