Intimacy is the feeling you can completely be yourself around someone no matter what. - Mark Manson

Problems add a sense of meaning and importance to our life. Thus to duck our problems is to lead a meaningless (even if supposedly pleasant) existence.

Your ancestors survived centuries of floods, wars, famine, slavery, and plagues for you to sit on the toilet and compare your life to people on the internet you’ve never met. Be grateful.

An obsession and over-investment in emotions fails us for the simple reason that emotions never last.