Earning more money increases freedom. Spending less than you earn reduces stress. - James Clear

The way to help someone is not to critique what makes them smaller, but to encourage what makes them larger.

If your past achievements didn't make you meaningfully happier, don't expect your future achievements to make you happier.

Remember that thing you so badly wanted? If getting it didn't meaningfully change your long-term happiness, then you shouldn't expect the thing you want right now to change your long-term happiness either.

You are roughly as happy as you decide to be today. And some day, years from now, after you accomplish the thing you've been striving for, you'll have to decide to be happy on that day too.

Prediction depends on events outside your control.

Creation depends on events within your control.

Don't guess about the future. Shape it.