the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in th… - Mark Manson

We are always in the process of approaching truth and perfection without actually ever reaching truth or perfection.

by spending the majority of my short life avoiding what was painful and uncomfortable, I had essentially been avoiding being alive at all.

Trust is like a china plate. If you break it once, with some care and attention you can put it back together again. But if you break it again, it splits into even more pieces and it takes far longer to piece together again. If you break it more and more times, eventually it shatters to the point where it’s impossible to restore. There are too many broken pieces, and too much dust.