Kevin Adu-Sarkodie

“All psychological suffering (or happiness, taken in its usual sense) is a matter of comparison.”
― Robert A. Johnson, He: Understanding Masculine Psychology

“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”
― Barack Obama

“Modern western man has some basic misconceptions about the nature of happiness. The origin of the word is instructive: happiness stems from the root verb to happen, which implies that our happiness is what happens.”
― Robert A. Johnson, He: Understanding Masculine Psychology

“Some of you have a big bag of shit you’re carrying around. And every time you encounter a situation in which you can possibly get more shit to put in the bag, you grab it and stuff it inside. You’ll even ignore all the diamonds glittering nearby, because all you can see is the shit. This shit is known as “the stories you tell yourself.” Examples include generalizations like “I make bad decisions,” “If people saw the real me, they wouldn’t like me,” or, conversely, “No one is good enough for me.” Each of these beliefs can be formed in childhood by, respectively, fault-finding parents, abandoning parents, and parents who put you on a pedestal. As a result, you can spend much of your life misinterpreting situations and thinking you’ve found more evidence to support these false conclusions formed in childhood. One”
― Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships