Tim Urban Quotes

“Chasing happiness is an amateur move. Feeling contentment in those times when your choices and your circumstances have combined to pull it off, and knowing you have all that you could ever ask for, is for the wise.”

“It’s when we feel too good that we run the risk of becoming overconfident, intellectually complacent, and set in our ways.

It’s exactly when we think we have life all figured out that we end up losing our way.”

“My goal for the future isn’t to avoid mistakes, it’s for the mistakes I do make to be my own.”

“The older I get, the clearer it becomes that our internal battle as the kindergarten teachers of our mind is like 97% of life’s struggle. The world is easy — you’re difficult.”