A quote from How to Be a Person in the World

if we haven’t welcomed our own weakness?

It’s completely normal to find ourselves in unappealing circumstances. This doesn’t mean you are broken. It means you are human. The more you fear, deny, or resist problems, pain, and difficult circumstances—from minor annoyances to major disturbances—the worse off you’ll be. The more you focus on what you can control and cease worrying about what

We are launched into the abyss—the space between the not-true-enough life we’re living and the truer one that exists only inside us. So we say, “Maybe it’s safer to just stay here. Even if it’s not true enough, maybe it’s good enough.” But good enough is what makes people drink too much and snark too much and become bitter and sick and live in quie