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?

if it feels like it’s you versus the world, chances are it’s really just you versus yourself.

Ever notice that sometimes when you care less about something, you do better at it? Notice how it’s often the person who is the least invested in the success of something that actually ends up achieving it? Notice how sometimes when you stop giving a fuck, everything seems to fall into place? What’s with that? What’s

The primary purpose of therapy is to help us become aware of the unconscious parts of our mind, accept them, and then begin exerting control over them.

My recommendation: don’t be special; don’t be unique. Redefine your metrics in mundane and broad ways. Choose to measure yourself not as a rising star or an undiscovered genius. Choose to measure yourself not as some horrible victim or dismal failure. Instead, measure yourself by more mundane identities: a student, a partner, a friend, a creator.

The first step to being more attractive is to see rejection as a means to eliminate women who won't make you happy from your life. It's a blessing, not a curse.

What pain do you want in your life?

"There is no correct dogma or perfect ideology. There is only what your experience has shown you to be right for you - and even then, that experience is probably somewhat wrong too. And because you and I and everybody else all have differing needs and personal histories and life circumstances, we will all inevitably come to different "correct" answers about what our lives mean and how they should be lived."

If people cheat, it's because something other than the relationship is more important to them. It may be power over others. It may be validation through sex. It may be giving in to their own impulses.

Happiness is having better problems.
Success is having better failures.
Discipline is having better addictions.

There is such pressure in the West to be likable that people often reconfigure their entire personality depending on the person they’re dealing with.

"Keep your “self” out of your decisions, because most likely, it’s not about “you.” Simply ask yourself, “Is this a good thing to do?” Yes? Then go do it.

Oh, you failed to do it? Is it still a good thing to do? Yes? Then go do it again. And if, at any point, you realize that it wasn’t as good as you thought, then don’t do it again.

End of story.

- From the Article: "Stop Trying to Change Yourself

We can be truly successful only at things we are willing to fail at.

They feel that they need to be great to be accepted in a world that broadcasts only the extraordinary.

You don’t find yourself. You build yourself. And your actions are both the hammer and nails.