We perceive the world in terms of its significance for action.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
The more you dwell in the past, the less you prepare for the future.