Sorry to break it to you, but it’s impossible for someone who destroys your mental health to be the love of your life. - Mark Manson

If your values aren’t tested, they’re not real. If they don’t cost you, they don’t matter.

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.....It’s what the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as “the backwards law” - the idea that 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 the first place.

You’re not stuck. You’re just afraid of the next step.