And if you're dreaming of something all the time, you're reinforcing the same unconscious reality over and over: that you're not that. - Mark Manson

nobody makes it through life without collecting a few scars on the way out.

it’s a never-ending upward spiral. And if you think at any point you’re allowed to stop climbing, I’m afraid you’re missing the point. Because the joy is in the climb itself.

When viewed from this perspective, personal growth can actually be quite scientific. Our values are our hypotheses: this behavior is good and important; that other behavior is not. Our actions are the experiments; the resulting emotions and thought patterns are our data.