"Don't hope for a life without problems," the panda said. "There's no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems." - Mark Manson

absolute freedom, by itself, means nothing. Freedom grants the opportunity for greater meaning, but by itself there is nothing necessarily meaningful about it. Ultimately, the only way to achieve meaning and a sense of importance in one’s life is through a rejection of alternatives, a narrowing of freedom, a choice of commitment to one place, one belief, or (gulp) one person.

Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it. Most

There is such pressure in the West to be likable that people often reconfigure their entire personality depending on the person they’re dealing with.