Thought provoking

negative emotions are a call to action.

We shouldn’t seek to find the ultimate “right” answer for ourselves, but rather, we should seek to chip away at the ways that we’re wrong today so that we can be a little less wrong tomorrow. When viewed from this perspective, personal growth can actually be quite scientific. Our values are our hypotheses: this behavior is good and important; that

Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it.

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.

You are already great because in the face of endless confusion and certain death, you continue to choose what to give a fuck about and what not to.

We don’t always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.