Simple happiness

Drivers of happiness

Love.Life: Holistic Health + Wellness Club in El Segundo, CA

IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER,
I’d like to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles,

from Brain Food #662

Everyone you admire has a story about how they overcame challenging adversity. Foolish to be disillusioned when it's your turn. Should feel proud to be able to relate to such esteemed company. Embrace the character arc of who you're meant to be. Everything going according to plan

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Political theorist Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between negative and positive freedom explains why so many nomads get stuck. Negative freedom is the absence of external constraints—freedom from something . Positive freedom is the ability to shape one’s life with agency—freedom to do something meaningful .

The Freedom Trap: Why Escaping the System Won’t Set You Free

Keep in mind that the cleaning lady is as much a human being as the Chairman.

-Warren Buffett

from Berkshire Hathaway 2025 Thanksgiving letter

If you are fortunate, a fantastic way to share your fortune is to gift a friend the cost of travel with you. You both will have a great time.

Kevin Kelly • 50 Years of Travel Tips

The Age of Pre-Grief

Lauren Razavi globalnatives.substack.com

We go through life thinking everyone else has it better than us until we grow up and realize we’re all in our own tiny boats of self-doubt and second-guessing.

-Maya Rudolph

YES! Practice gratitude and realize that you are the captain of your ship

… justice isn’t about fixing the past, it’s about fixing the future. We’re not fighting for the dead. We’re fighting for the living. And for those who aren’t yet born.

-Darrow

Live for the future, not the past

from Pierce Brown’s Morning Star pg. 280