101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

I think sometimes we get attached to the structures because we don’t like the contents. We’re more invested in how we’re perceived than who we are, in the idea of what the title means than the day-to-day work of the job, in the “do you promise to love me forever?” than the actual day-to-day loving. This is to say: We’re more comforted by ideas of w

Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.

Happiness is not only how we can astound our senses, but also the peace of mind that comes from knowing we are becoming who we want and need to be.

What if healing yourself is not fixing an attitude, not changing an opinion, not altering an aesthetic, but shifting a presence, an awareness, an energy?

The real question is what work are you willing to do even if nobody claps? What will be worthwhile if it goes unacknowledged?

Creative people are depressed for a reason8. The expression and experience of negative emotions are correlated with activation in the right frontal cortex (as well as in other structures such as the amygdala) or in other words, the same areas that are activated when consistently being creative and putting abstract meaning to the concrete reality of

Because of our capacity to imagine, we were able to build Earth as it is today out of virtually nothing.

Your habits create your mood, and your mood is a filter through which you experience your life.

the world’s ‘best’ people understood that to change their lives, they had to change their minds.

You think that being uncomfortable and fearful means you shouldn’t do something. Being uncomfortable and fearful means you definitely should. Being angry or indifferent means you definitely shouldn’t.