Our culture today confuses great attention and great success, assuming them to be the same thing. But they are not. - Mark Manson

Strength isn’t being tough. It’s choosing not to turn into an asshole when you have every right to be.

The choice you are agonizing over will not matter as much as you think.

The job you pick, the house you buy, the city you move to, each will become normal faster than you expect. Your happiness is not in the choice itself but in how well you later justify it.

Our culture today is obsessively focused on unrealistically positive expectations: Be happier. Be healthier. Be the best, better than the rest. Be smarter, faster, richer, sexier, more popular, more productive, more envied, and more admired. Be perfect and amazing and crap out twelve-karat-gold nuggets before breakfast each morning while kissing your selfie-ready spouse and two and a half kids goodbye. Then fly your helicopter to your wonderfully fulfilling job, where you spend your days doing incredibly meaningful work that’s likely to save the planet one day.