"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.

If you feel crappy, it's because that's your brain telling you that there's a problem unaddressed or an issue unresolved. In other words, negative emotions are a call to action. When you feel them, it's because you're supposed to do something. Positive emotions, on the other hand, are rewards for taking proper action. When you feel them, life seems simple and there is nothing else to do but enjoy it. Then like everything else, positive emotions go away, because more problems inevitably emerge.

A relationship that requires you to shrink yourself to fit inside it is the same relationship that will suffocate you if you stay in it too long.

Self-control is an illusion. It’s an illusion that occurs when both brains are aligned and pursuing the same course of action.