With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become. Atomic Habits

Even that has its reason; it is often better to be in chains than to be free. The Trial

“Vasudeva rose. “It is late,” he said, “let’s go to sleep. I can’t tell you that other thing, oh friend. You’ll learn it, or perhaps you know it already. See, I’m no learned man, I have no special skill in speaking, I also have no special skill in thinking. All I’m able to do is to listen and to be godly, I have learned nothing else. If I was able to say and teach it, I might be a wise man, but like this I am only a ferryman, and it is my task to ferry people across the river.” ” Siddhartha

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death. Autumn Leaves