Mark Manson
Stop chasing constant positivity and accept that life involves suffering. The secret to a meaningful life is not avoiding pain, but choosing exactly which painful struggles are worth your limited energy.
We all have a finite amount of energy to expend, meaning we must ruthlessly prioritize what truly matters and ignore trivial distractions.
The desire for a positive experience is itself a negative experience, while the acceptance of a negative experience is paradoxically a positive one.
Happiness does not arrive from a lack of adversity, but from the active and continuous process of choosing and solving meaningful problems.