Improvement at anything is based on a thousand of tiny failures, ...and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at som… - Mark Manson

It's prosperity that causes crises in hope. It's having six hundred channels and nothing to watch. It's having fifteen matches on Tinder but no one good to date. It's having two thousand restaurants to choose from but feeling sick of all the same old food. Prosperity makes meaning more difficult. It makes pain more acute.

People hold on to arbitrary certainties and try to enforce them on others, often violently, in the name of some made-up righteous cause.

"I say, if you cringe over yourself, that's good. It means that you have grown. You should actually never stop cringing.