Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

by Mark Manson

It’s our natural psychological inclination to equalize across moral gaps, to reciprocate actions: positive for positive; negative for negative.

every action demands an equal and opposite emotional reaction. This is Newton’s First Law of Emotion.

whether you feel as though you’re better than the rest of the world or worse than the rest of the world, the same thing is true: you’re imagining yourself as something special, something separate from the world.