Veronica Bernal

“mantra out loud: “You got this.” This mantra has evolved over the years—it started as “believe in yourself,” then it was “you’re lovable,” “be yourself,” then “you’re enough,” “speak your truth,” “you’re exactly where you need to be,” “I love you,” and now it’s “you got this.” The ritual always stays the same, but the mantra changes. I started this whole ritual when, in my”
― Mike Bayer, Best Self: Be You, Only Better

“nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“don’t think we’re supposed to be happy. I mean the big us, humans. I think we’re supposed to struggle. I think that’s because there’s something more important to our psyche than hedonistic happiness.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“Satisfaction. The satisfaction that comes from achievement. From having worked and produced and accomplished. Adults need it the way babies need milk. And like milk, satisfaction has a shelf life. People can feed off past accomplishments for a couple of weeks, but their mood starts to sour after that. “I have developed the theory that adults wean themselves off the need to achieve as they move beyond middle age. By the time they’re seniors, they can sustain a positive attitude off the energy of past accomplishments. But as Immortals, we’re stuck with the achievement appetite of youth.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time