ArcAngel’s Reviews > The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life > Status Update

“we need to reject something. Otherwise, we stand for nothing”

“Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.”

“We shouldn’t seek to find the ultimate “right” answer for ourselves, but rather, we should seek to chip away at the ways that we’re wrong today so that we can be a little less wrong tomorrow.”

“Many people may be to blame for your unhappiness, but nobody is ever responsible for your unhappiness but you.”

“Many people may be to blame for your unhappiness, but nobody is ever responsible for your unhappiness but you.”

“But there are also problems that we aren’t at fault for, yet we are still responsible for them.”

“The more we choose to accept responsibility in our lives, the more power we will exercise over our lives. Accepting responsibility for our problems is thus the first step to solving them.”

“Whether we consciously recognize it or not, we are always responsible for our experiences.

Choosing to not respond to the events in our lives is still a response to the events in our lives.”

“Often the only difference between a problem being painful or being powerful is a sense that we chose it, and that we are responsible for it.”

(Side Note: As a rule, people who are terrified of what others think about them are actually terrified of all the shitty things they think about themselves being reflected back at them.)