Mark Manson Quotes

intentions are always speaking ten times louder than your actual words. What are they saying?

Self-awareness is like an onion. There are multiple layers to it, and the more you peel them back, the more likely you’re going to start crying at inappropriate times. Let’s

Eventually you’ll realize that it’s better to be disliked for who you are than liked for who you are not. Then everything will change.

A better life starts with a better filter. Change who and what you allow into your world, and the peace will follow.

Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you failed at something.

Laziness is fear disguised as a lack of motivation.

The best investments are the things no one can take away from you: knowledge, experience, mindset, attitude.

This is what is so admirable. No, not me, dumbass — the overcoming adversity stuff, the willingness to be different, an outcast, a pariah, all for the sake of one’s own values. The willingness to stare failure in the face and shove your middle finger back at it. The people who don’t give a fuck about adversity or failure or embarrassing themselves or shitting the bed a few times. The people who just laugh and then do what they believe in anyway. Because they know it’s right. They know it’s more important than they are, more important than their own feelings and their own pride and their own ego. They say, “Fuck it,” not to everything in life, but rather to everything unimportant in life. They reserve their fucks for what truly matters. Friends. Family. Purpose. Burritos. And an occasional lawsuit or two. And because of that, because they reserve their fucks for only the big things that matter, people give a fuck about them in return.

Instead of striving for certainty, we should be in constant search of doubt: doubt about our own beliefs, doubt about our own feelings, doubt about what the future may hold for us unless we get out there and create it for ourselves. Instead of looking to be right all the time, we should be looking for how we’re wrong all the time. Because we are.

A happy life is not a life without struggle, it's a life with meaningful struggle.

We all love to take responsibility for success and happiness. Hell, we often fight over who gets to be responsible for success and happiness. But taking responsibility for our problems is far more important, because that's where the real learning comes from. That's where the real-life improvement comes from. To simply blame others is only to hurt yourself.

It was his simple ability to be completely, unflinchingly honest with himself — especially the worst parts of himself — and to share his failings without hesitation or doubt.

Happiness comes from solving problems. [...] Happiness is a constant work-in-progress. The solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems.

Why do you care that I’m dead when you’re still so afraid to live?” I

As a general rule, we’re all the world’s worst observers of ourselves.