Adam B

“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“The most powerful common denominator of happiness was simple. Campbell summed it up: Having a strong sense of controlling one’s life is a more dependable predictor of positive feelings of wellbeing than any of the objective conditions of life we have considered. More than your salary. More than the size of your house. More than the prestige of your job. Control over doing what you want”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“In relation to therapeutic issues where we are manufacturing our own pain, the pain must be understood as a failure of creativity. The response to a certain situation has rigidified. We have lost our ability to create new responses for new situations. We do not understand how we have participated in creating our pain. We are no longer able to recognize new situations when they occur.”
― Greg Johanson, Grace Unfolding: Psychotherapy in the Spirit of Tao-te ching

“To each,” Winston Churchill would say, “there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
― Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave