28 Quotes by Hector Garcia Puigcerver

There is a tension between what is good for someone and what they want to do. This is because people, especially older people, like to do things as they've always done them. The problem is that when the brain develops ingrained habits, it doesn't need to think anymore. Things get done very quickly and efficiently on automatic pilot, often in a very advantageous way. This creates a tendency to stick to routines, and the only way of breaking these is to confront the brain with new information.

We don't create our feelings; they simply come to us, and we have to accept them. The trick is, to welcome them.

Our ikigai is different for all of us, but one thing we have in common is that we are all searching for meaning.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react that matters.

a happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

We don’t create the meaning of our life, as Sartre claimed—we discover it.

appreciate the beauty of imperfection as an opportunity for growth.

Stop regretting the past and fearing the future. Today is all you have. Make the most of it. Make it worth remembering.

Instead of searching for beauty in perfection, we should look for it in things that are flawed, incomplete.