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

More stuff doesn’t make us freer, it imprisons us with anxiety over whether we chose or did the best thing.

Be something better. Be more compassionate, more resilient, more humble, more disciplined. Many people would also throw in there “Be more human,” but no—be a better human. And maybe, if we’re lucky, one day we’ll get to be more than human.

of the opposite.

Greater commitment allows for greater depth. A lack of commitment requires superficiality.

Ultimately, the most meaningful freedom in your life comes from your commitments, the things in life for which you have chosen to sacrifice.

Hopelessness is the root of anxiety, mental illness, and depression. It is the source of all misery and the cause of all addiction.

Pain is the currency of our values.

This is what’s referred to in psychology as “emotional regulation,” and it’s basically learning how to put a bunch of fucking guardrails and One Way signs along your road of life to keep your Feeling Brain from careening off a cliff.31 It’s hard

It’s an illusion designed to give people hope. And when the Thinking Brain isn’t aligned with the Feeling Brain, people feel powerless, and the world around them begins to feel hopeless. The only way you consistently nail that illusion is by consistently communicating and aligning the brains around the same values. It’s a skill, much the same as pl

Depression is a crisis of hope. It is the belief in a meaningless future.