101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Practicing feeling good is simply taking a moment to literally let yourself feel. Extend that rush just a few seconds longer, meditate on some things you’re grateful for, and let it wash over you as much as possible. Seek what’s positive, and you’ll find that your threshold for feeling it expands as you decide it can.

Love is something other people give you. People cannot transmute emotions, which is interesting to consider when you realize how utterly consumed the human race is with the concept of getting other people to love us. This is because when we think other people love us, we give ourselves permission to feel love. It’s a mind game, one in which we rely

Do the things that are effortless. Let them be effortless. Find love that’s effortless. You’ll be instructed to believe that success comes from grueling, soul-bending hard work, but that’s more something we impose on ourselves because letting effortless things also be successful ones makes them feel unmerited. That’s how we create problems where th

We are programmed to seek what we’ve known.

Who you would be happy to also live for, if your own desires and interests were no longer your sole priority.

to help others, you must first help yourself.

“future-self work.”

When we think there is a purpose for our pain, the discomfort of it dissolves.

Let those things go, but decide what to let go by thinking about what they make you feel.