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“That the pain of not doing what we need to do is far worse than the pain of doing it.”
― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life

“Attention and discipline, regarding where we focus, pay huge dividends. We must be mindful, attentive, and awake. If not sober and vigilant, the old program runs automatically, and we are once again just pawns in the already established game.”
― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life

“amor fati, a Latin phrase translated as “love of one’s fate.” It describes an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in life, including pain and loss, as good, or at least necessary. In this mindset, we can accept the events of life, and possibly see them as opportunities. We certainly prefer to avoid suffering, but when it finds us, we accept that it’s our turn and try to push through gracefully. We cannot avoid it, and grumbling about it doesn’t help. How we suffer matters, and there are many options for how to do it.”
― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life

“Many of the fluids we drink actually force us to be more dehydrated, even though they are mostly made up of water. Beverages like coffee, tea, beer, wine, sodas, and energy drinks send us to the bathroom to urinate more often. More water is technically coming into the system when we drink these, sure, but the problem is that they may also require much more of our water stores to remove them from the body properly. We lose water and electrolytes when drinking some beverages. That pint of craft IPA may require an additional twenty ounces of pure water to eliminate the alcohol and hops from your system.”
― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life

“We naturally gravitate to people in higher states. It’s only after longstanding patterns of anger and sadness that we intentionally seek out a poorly performing group in which to commiserate. One attitude lifts our spirits and has the potential to elevate us. The opposite one reinforces the damaging pattern. Think for a minute. How do you view someone who is a downer, drama queen, or a pessimist? In contrast, how do you feel about the person you know who lives in a positive state? Who would you rather hang out with? Again, it’s natural to want to be near this type of energy. It’s attractive. But when we begin to resent positivity in others, we must recognize that we are in serious trouble ourselves.”
― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life

“These electric charges regulate how water moves into and out of our cells via osmosis and influence the health and activities of our nerves, muscles, and other organs, including our brain. They move nutrients into cells, move waste out, and keep our pH in balance. Water must be readily available for those reactions to take place. Without the proper balance of these minerals in solution, our cells would either dry out and whither, or swell up and burst.”
― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life

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― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life

“We can easily appreciate how our current state influences us, but another important variable to consider is how our current state directly affects the people around us.”
― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life

“Divergent problems cannot be killed… They can, however, be transcended.”
― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life

“knew where I was and why, but I was very disoriented. I could barely hold my head up, and I didn’t want to talk too much because I knew I still sounded wasted.”
― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life

“I simultaneously had too low expectations for myself. I stayed anxious and irritated, although most people never knew it. Negativity was my default state of mind. My lousy posture followed the cues from my weak thinking, causing more back and neck inflammation, which made my mood worse. Remember: If you run into a jerk in the morning, you ran into one jerk. If you run into them all day, every day, you are the jerk.”
― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life

“I have also learned that most any decision made in a state of fear is the wrong one. It impedes our judgment and preys on us in times of weakness and instability. It is an evil force that can cripple us with harmful thoughts and emotions running amok. It causes us to exaggerate the dangers we face. Remember, darkness is present only in the absence of light. Whether literal, emotional, metaphorical, or spiritual, it is necessary to turn on the light to drive out the darkness. Fear need not have any place of prominence in our lives. We must chase it away as soon as we recognize it has encroached into our spaces.”
― Nate Dallas, You're Too Good to Feel This Bad: An Orthodox Approach to Living an Unorthodox Life