101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Life did not get easier; you got smarter.

Nobody wants to believe happiness is a choice, because that puts responsibility in their hands. It’s the same reason people self-pity: to delay action, to make an outcry to the universe, as though the more they state how bad things are, the more likely it is that someone else will change them. Happiness is not a rush of positive emotion elicited by

The only matter is that we let love do what it’s supposed to: give us more of it, even—and probably especially—when it means we have to take it for ourselves.

The only work to do is to remove the blocks that prevent you from living it out.

Do the most important things immediately in the morning. Give your energy to what matters most, when you have the most of it. It also helps you define what really matters to you.

(Can’t fail if you haven’t tried, eh?)

Unless you are there to touch and smell and see a flower, it is nothing

What is the first thing people would know about you? What would you be most afraid of them seeing? Who would you impress? Who would you love? What would you adjust as you walked past the mirror? What kind of work would you be in? What would your goals be, how would you strive to be better if what you collected in the bank or

The things you love about others are the things you love about yourself. The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself. 1 Gilbert, Daniel. Stumbling on Happiness.