"Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience. It's what the philosopher Alan Watts u… - Mark Manson

the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place.

For individuals to feel justified in doing horrible things to other people, they must feel an unwavering certainty in their own righteousness, in their own beliefs and deservedness. ...Evil people never believe that they are evil, rather, they believe that everyone else is evil.

You’ll be amazed at how things magically turn out great as soon as you stop giving a f*ck.

If your values aren’t tested, they’re not real. If they don’t cost you, they don’t matter.