Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.

The true paradox of human existence is that we are condemned to be free; we are responsible for what we make of ourselves, yet we perpetually seek to escape this responsibility through bad faith and self-deception.

We are not thinking of the future as we should be. We think of it as if it were a place we are going to, when in fact it is a place we are making.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We confuse ourselves as we think in circles, going nowhere—all the while forgetting that we are only ever just one step away from making a choice that could change the direction of our lives.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.