Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

by James Clear

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail. —LAO TZU

Happiness is the space between one desire being fulfilled and a new desire forming.”1 Likewise, suffering is the space between craving a change in state and getting it.