Rohit Chauhan

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.

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.

“and your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

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.

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

Manson’s law of avoidance on them: The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it. That means the more something threatens to change how you view yourself, how successful/unsuccessful you believe yourself to be, how well you see yourself living up to your values, the more you will avoid ever getting around to doing it.

Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order.

Bukowski once wrote, “We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by life’s trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.”