- Bad moods will come and go your whole life, and trying to force them away makes them run deeper and last longer.
- Every problem you have is your responsibility, regardless of who caused it.
- You never have to deal with more than one moment at a time.
- Nobody has it all figured out.
- Every passing face on the street represents a story every bit as compelling and complicated as yours.
- Whenever you hate something, it hates you back: people, situations and inanimate objects alike.
- Those who complain the most, accomplish the least.
- Putting something off makes it instantly harder and scarier.
- Nobody knows more than a minuscule fraction of what’s going on in the world. It’s just way too big for any one person to know it well.
- Most of what we see is only what we think about what we see.
- The most common addiction in the world is the draw of comfort. It wrecks dreams and breaks people.
- If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action.
- Everyone you meet is better than you at something.
- Self-examination is the only path out of misery.
- Whoever you are, you will die. To know and understand that means you are alive.
- Getting truly organized can vastly improve anyone’s life.
- Almost every cliché contains a truth so profound that people have been compelled to repeat it until it makes you roll your eyes. But the wisdom is still in there.
- Posture and dress change profoundly how you feel about yourself and how others feel about you, like it or not.
- By default, people think far too much.
- If anything is worth splurging on, it’s a high-quality mattress. You’ll spend a third of your life using it.
- It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.
- Problems, when they arise, are rarely as painful as the experience of fearing them.
- Nothing — ever — happens exactly like you pictured it.
- When you break promises to yourself, you feel terrible. When you make a habit of it, you begin to hate yourself.
- A good nine out of ten bad things I’ve worried about never happened. A good nine out of ten bad things that did happen never occurred to me to worry about.
- Anyone can be calmed in an instant by looking at the ocean or the stars.
- There is no point finishing a book you aren’t enjoying. Life is too short for that. Swallow your pride and put it down for good, unfinished.
- Breaking new ground only takes a small amount more effort than you’re used to giving.
- Life is a solo trip, but you’ll have lots of visitors. Some of them are long-term, most aren’t.
- One of the best things you can do for your kids is take them on road trips. I’m not a parent, but I was a kid once.
- The fewer possessions you have, the more they do for you.
- When you’re sick of your own life, that’s a good time to pick up a book.
- Wishing things were different is a great way to torture yourself.
- The ability to be happy is nothing other than the ability to come to terms with how things change.
- Killing time is an atrocity. It’s priceless, and it never grows back.
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