But if you avoid stress and pain (Le

But if you avoid stress and pain (Le., if you sit on your damn couch all day watching Netflix), your muscles will atrophy, your bones will become brittle, and you will degenerate into weakness.

— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk) · Everything is Fcked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson*

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And there is a particular emptiness reserved for the one who finally gets everything he was chasing and discovers it was never the destination at all. The opposite error is just as deadly, and quieter: the refusal of all risk, the life spent on the couch avoiding every stress and every pain — which is its own slow way of going down, because a life with all the danger removed is not safe, it is merely unlived. We do it to our children, too, smoothing every playground until it is so safe it can no longer teach them anything, when what they need is ground challenging enough to grow on. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

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