“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
You have the life you’re willing to put up with.
“Circumstances don’t make the man; they only reveal him to himself.”
- Epictetus
“Everyone has their problems, and life isn’t always perfect. It never will be.”
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing”
- Theodore Roosevelt
Don’t wait for the mood to strike. Don’t get stuck looking for that magic feeling that will do the work for you.
Simply act. Put aside your thoughts and move.
It’s all about action. Going out there, doing it and taking all your negative bullshit along for the ride. It’s never going to get any better, any easier or any more understandable. This is it, life is now and you’re never going to have a better moment than this.
The truth is, you can never really know. We never really have all the facts. As humans, we still only understand a tiny fraction of our own minds let alone the world or the oceans or space or technology. If someone tells you they have all the answers, call them out on that bullshit. The truth is they’re winging it just like you, just like everyone else.
An opinion only becomes true when you accept it and stop acting on your potential.
“Don’t seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”
- Epictetus
EXPECT NOTHING, ACCEPT EVERYTHING
“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.”
- Martin Heidegger
Your internal condition means nothing. It’s just another excuse that you give yourself.to stay out of the risky zones of life. The problem is, those risky zones ARE life! The rest is just existing.
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte