Often the only difference between a problem being painful or being powerful is a sense that we chose it, and that we are responsible for it. We don't… - Mark Manson

We don’t always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.

Resentment is the compound interest on conversations you were too afraid to have.

All peoples are more the same than they are different. We all mostly want the same things out of life. But those slight differences generate emotion, and emotion generates a sense of importance. Therefore, we come to perceive our differences as disproportionately more important than our similarities. And this is the true tragedy of man. That we are doomed to perpetual conflict over the slight difference.

The Paradox of Progress We live in an interesting time in that, materially, things are arguably better than they have ever been before, yet we all seem to be losing our minds thinking the world is one giant toilet bowl about to be flushed. An irrational sense of hopelessness is spreading across the rich, developed world. It’s a paradox of progress: the better things get, the more anxious and desperate we all seem to feel.