What you want is never a thing

Because here’s the deal — if we “hustled” and climbed that big mountain and “crushed” all of our goals and made our big awesome vision board a reality, and we still found ourselves feeling trapped, drained, isolated, bored, or stressed out, we’d have to wonder… “What the hell is this shit? What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I be happy?” As we’ve discu

Most actions are a pursuit of emotions. You think you want to take action or own a thing. But what you really want is the emotion you think it’ll bring.

From why we don’t have what we want to why having what we want doesn’t seem to make us feel any better.

You will learn the truth by experience: the things that people value highly and try hardest to get do them no good once they have them. Those who don’t have them imagine that, once they do, everything good will be theirs; then they do get them, and the heat of their desires is the same, their agitation is the same, their disgust with what they poss