Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2 Book Series))

They become the background noise of our thoughts, the interior decoration of our minds.

This network of value-based narratives is our identity.

And we usually don’t lie out of malice—rather, we lie to others because we’re in such a habit of lying to ourselves.

The person who denies his Feeling Brain numbs himself to the world around him. By rejecting his emotions, he rejects making value judgments, that is, deciding that one thing is better than another. As a result, he becomes indifferent to life and the results of his decisions. He struggles to engage with others. His relationships suffer. And eventual

The Feeling Brain generates the emotions that cause us to move into action, and the Thinking Brain suggests where to direct that action.

Emotional problems are irrational, meaning they cannot be reasoned with. And this brings us to even worse news: emotional problems can only have emotional solutions.

Emotion is the biological hydraulic system that pushes our bodies into movement.

That’s because action is emotion.

we are moved to action only by emotion.