The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach To Living A Good Life Quotes
"The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important."
"Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it."
"Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for."
"Happiness requires struggle. It grows from problems. Joy doesn’t just sprout out of the ground like daisies and rainbows."
"The true measurement of self-worth is not how a person feels about her positive experiences, but rather how she feels about her negative experiences."
"The more interesting question is the pain. What is the pain that you want to sustain?"
"We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change."
"You cannot achieve growth without experiencing discomfort."
"Most people want to be happy but don’t want to feel the pain of growth."
"True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving."
"Most of us are pretty average at most things we do."
"To become truly great at something, you have to dedicate shit-tons of time and energy to it."
"It’s a statistical improbability that any single person will be an extraordinary performer in all areas of life."
"We’re all, for the most part, pretty average people."
"The vast majority of life is unextraordinary, indeed quite average."
"This flood of extreme information has conditioned us to believe that exceptionalism is the new normal."
"Our lives today are filled with information from the extremes of the bell curve of human experience."
"The ticket to emotional health comes from eating your veggies—that is, accepting the bland and mundane truths of life."
"The more we choose to accept responsibility in our lives, the more power we will exercise over our lives."
"We are responsible for experiences that aren’t our fault all the time. This is part of life."
"The beauty of poker is that while luck is always involved, luck doesn’t dictate the long-term results of the game."
"Most of our beliefs are wrong. Or, to be more exact, all beliefs are wrong—some are just less wrong than others."
"Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth."
"We don’t actually know what a positive or negative experience is."
"The unfortunate fact is, most of what we come to 'know' and believe is the product of the innate inaccuracies and biases present in our brains."
"Most of our values are products of events that are not representative of the world at large, or are the result of a totally misconceived past."
"Why do you care that I’m dead when you’re still so afraid to live?"
"If there really is no reason to do anything, then there is also no reason to not do anything."
"By spending the majority of my short life avoiding what was painful and uncomfortable, I had essentially been avoiding being alive at all."
"Oddly, it was someone else’s death that gave me permission to finally live."
"The only way to be comfortable with death is to understand and see yourself as something bigger than yourself."
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
"You are already great because in the face of endless confusion and certain death, you continue to choose what to give a fuck about and what not to."
"The more I peer into the darkness, the brighter life gets, the quieter the world becomes, and the less unconscious resistance I feel to, well, anything."