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There is no such thing as an optimum life.
I can't really stand self-help stuff myself.
Be motivated by something beyond simply money or glory.
By itself, love is never enough to sustain a relationship.
You can always do something about the problems life gives you.
We're not accustomed to judging things on philosophical importance.
You can't have a pain-free life. It can't all be roses and unicorns.
It's easy to want the benefits of something; it's hard to want the cost.
'War and Peace' may be the most epic thing ever created by a human being.
As soon as you try to eliminate a thought or emotion, you make it stronger.
I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.
OK, I'm as lazy as the next guy. Full disclosure. And I often feel guilty about it.
Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.
Approaching people looking for something in return isn't a relationship, it's a transaction.
Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.
If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.
Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.
I hate calendars, and after running my own online business for almost 10 years, I still don't have one.
Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.
I felt that no self-help book had been written for millennials yet, so my ultimate goal was to write it.
The reason we fall in love with certain music and writing is we connect with it on a very personal level.
The truth is, I do some of my best writing at 3 A.M. while blasting 'Every Time I Die' into my ear drums.
Every new conversation, every new relationship, brings new challenges and opportunities for honest expression.
I love massive books: books so big, like bricks, you could drown yourself in a pool with them if you're not careful.
Don't hang out with a bunch of people who drag you down when you can hang out with one person who makes you feel good.
The first and perhaps most important thing to realize about being happier in life is to stop trying to be so happy in life.
A lot of cases, what makes you an interesting and complex person makes you a really horrible person to be with romantically.
Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.
I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.
Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't necessarily mean they're a good partner for you to be with over the long term.
I speak four languages, and I've seen some of the most spectacular locations in the world and met hundreds of fascinating people.
For all we know, we are the only shot the universe has at intelligent self-organization. Therefore, we need to take it seriously.
Seeking approval and people pleasing forces you to alter your actions and speech to no longer reflect what you actually think or feel.
Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is.
I think most people who try to start a business, they realise very quickly that one of the biggest hurdles is having to be self-determined.
I'm your typical highly educated, progressive white dude. I've lived my life resisting racism both within myself and in the society around me.
The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us.
Most of us commit to action only if we feel a certain level of motivation. And we feel motivation only when we feel enough emotional inspiration.
Little things, when we're caught up and fretting about them, often appear to be big and meaningful and world-changing in the moment they are happening.
Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.
People want to offer opportunities to people they care about. They want to help people they believe are good people or have shared life experiences with.
I think it's always been normal for humans to compare themselves to each other, but we're so hyper-connected all the time now that it's driving us insane.
Generally, our first idea of what our business is going to be is not the right one. It takes a few iterations; to get there, you have to be able to let go.
For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was 'cool' for all the Gen Xers to read.
Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.
When people lay around whining to their therapists and ex-wives that they're finally going to 'change' themselves, they are promising something imaginary and made up.
There's nothing wrong with having goals, but obsessing over them is often counterproductive because, in reality, achieving a goal isn't always what it's cracked up to be.
Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other's faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.
There's a paradox with self-improvement, and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you no longer feel the need to improve yourself.
I believe productivity is a deeply personal thing. We all have different brains and, therefore, different preferences, perspectives, and situations where we feel most effective.