The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.

Making Life means making trouble

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had.

why I spent the first eighteen years of my life pretending that everything in the world was a problem except me.

Whatever your problems are, the concept is the same: solve problems; be happy. Unfortunately,
for many people, life doesn’t feel that simple. That’s because they fuck things up in at least one of two
ways:
1. Denial. Some people deny that their problems exist in the first place. And because they deny
reality, they must constantly delude or distract themselves from reality. This may make them feel
good in the short term, but it leads to a life of insecurity, neuroticism, and emotional repression.
2. Victim Mentality. Some choose to believe that there is nothing they can do to solve their
problems, even when they in fact could. Victims seek to blame others for their problems or blame
outside circumstances. This may make them feel better in the short term, but it leads to a life of
anger, helplessness, and despair.

Half the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

Half of life’s problems disappear when one’s head is healthy.

Among the many paradoxes of human life, this is perhaps the most peculiar and consequential: We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy. Many of us spend our lives marching with open eyes toward remorse, regret, guilt, and disappointment. And nowhere do our injuries seem more casually self-inflicted, or the suffering we create more disproportionate to the needs of the moment, than in the lies we tell to other human beings. Lying is the royal road to chaos.

90% of all failures in life are those who have the habit of making excuses.