Sublime

Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your relationships. Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance.

giving too many fucks is bad for your mental health.

For individuals to feel justified in doing horrible things to other people, they must feel an unwavering certainty in their own righteousness, in their own beliefs and deservedness. Racists do racist things because they’re certain about their genetic superiority. Religious fanatics blow themselves up and murder dozens of people because they’re

Ryan Holiday refers to this as “outrage porn”:

Pendant des siècles, les psychologues et les philosophes ont pensé que l’étouffement ou la suppression des émotions était le remède à tous les maux. Et voilà qu’arrive cet homme débarrassé de toute émotion, de toute empathie, qui n’est plus qu’intelligence et raison pure, mais qui fout sa vie en l’air en quelques années. Son cas allait à l’encontre

An untamed mind is a minefield.

The word “I” embodies the greatest error and the deepest truth, depending on how it is used.

Our cultural values almost try to make us dependent on validation, entitled, and ruled by our emotions.

This is the litmus test for determining whether we’ve got some pretty solid values going on, or we’re totally neurotic fuckwads taking our fucks out on everyone, including ourselves.