Improving your life does not remove your problems. It simply exchanges them for better problems. - Mark Manson

A more interesting question, a question that most people never consider, is, “What pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for?” Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out.

People lay in bed all weekend on their phone and wonder why they’re not motivated to do anything.

Motivation is not the cause of action but the effect.

Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience