Mark Manson Quotes

Entitlement closes in upon itself in a kind of narcissistic bubble, distorting anything and everything in such a way as to reinforce itself. People who feel entitled view every occurrence in their life as either an affirmation of, or a threat to, their own greatness.

I think your mind is so open your brain fell out!”10

Fault is past tense. Responsibility is present tense.

The first rule of dealing with drama: don’t hang around people who are constantly creating drama. 

The second rule: never forget the first one.

Or let’s say you have an anger problem. You get pissed off at the stupidest, most inane stuff, and you have no idea why. And the fact that you get pissed off so easily starts to piss you off even more. And then, in your petty rage, you realize that being angry all the time makes you a shallow and mean person, and you hate this; you hate it so much that you get angry at yourself. Now look at you: you’re angry at yourself getting angry about being angry. Fuck you, wall. Here, have a fist.

The better things get, the more we perceive threats where there are none, and the more upset we become. And it is at the heart of the paradox of progress.

The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure.

Growth is an endlessly iterative process. When we learn something new, we don’t go from “wrong” to “right.” Rather, we go from wrong to slightly less wrong. And when we learn something additional, we go from slightly less wrong to slightly less wrong than that, and then to even less wrong than that, and so on. We are always in the process of approaching truth and perfection without actually ever reaching truth and perfection.
We shouldn’t seek to find the ultimate “right” answer for ourselves, but rather, we should seek to chip away at the ways that we’re wrong today so that we can be a little less wrong tomorrow.

People don’t fear change. They fear loss.

The loss of comfort. The loss of certainty. The loss of who they thought they were.

Bad ideologies such as racism or sexism persist due to ignorance far more than malice.

The other issue with overvaluing material success is the danger of prioritizing it over other values, such as honesty, nonviolence, and compassion. When people measure themselves not by their behavior, but by the status symbols they’re able to collect, then not only are they shallow, but they’re probably assholes as well.

Every success story is a secret story of pain. But it’s not about how it hurt, it’s about what the hurt led to.

And again, for the love of god, if you don’t find her attractive, don’t pursue her.

What pain do you want to sustain?” The path to happiness is a path full of shitheaps and shame.
You have to choose something. You can’t have a pain-free life. It can’t all be roses and unicorns all the time. Pleasure is the easy question.

Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress.