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November 1 - December 10, 2024
“It never gets easier, you just get faster.”
Capitalism itself hamstrings happiness by replacing the present with the dollar.
trying to find happiness in “having” or in someone else’s version of it is like chasing the horizon: you might end up where you were looking, but you’ll never recognize it because your eyes are still fixed outward.
These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
Fear lives in anticipation. Hope lives in action.
the oppressed are somehow responsible for breaking their own chains.
In 2020, 45,979 people killed themselves
“Life isn’t a cognitive exercise. It’s an action sport. Understanding isn’t enough. You have to go out and do the damn thing.”
Psychology is an invitation out of victimhood, not into
suggest these people endured and died because they didn’t believe hard enough is, simply put, arrogant and cruel.