Mark Manson Quotes

Most people aren’t paying attention to what you’re doing, and your loudest critics are probably too scared to try. What are you so worried about?

The hardest part of change isn’t choosing the new; it’s letting go of and mourning the old.

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.

We are responsible for experiences that aren’t our fault all the time. This is part of life.

No, the opposite of happiness is hopelessness, an endless gray horizon of resignation and indifference.3 It’s the belief that everything is fucked, so why do anything at all?

this is what’s so dangerous about a society that coddles itself more and more from the inevitable discomforts of life: we lose the benefits of experiencing healthy doses of pain, a loss that disconnects us from the reality of the world around us.

that rather than attempting to implement, often through lethal force, their conceptual self across the world, people should question their conceptual self and become more comfortable with the reality of their own death. Becker called this “the bitter antidote,” and

You crave honesty from others but fear it from yourself.

An obsession and over-investment in emotions fails us for the simple reason that emotions never last.

Be the partner you want to have

The quickest way to ruin your life is to try to make everything easy.

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

We are responsible for experiences that aren’t our fault all the time. This is part of life. Here’s

Ultimately, we are moved to action only by emotion. That's because action is emotion.

You too are going to die, and that’s because you too were fortunate enough to have lived.