Mark Manson Quotes

A healthy relationship should periodically make you a little uncomfortable. The conversations that matter are uncomfortable. The vulnerability required for intimacy is uncomfortable. Finding compromise and forgiveness is uncomfortable.

A comfortable relationship is likely an empty one.

People spend their lives trying to avoid doing something they regret, only to regret all the things they didn’t do.

Confidence is really just the ability to unapologetically like yourself.

The moment you accept that you can't control the outcome is the moment you stop being controlled by it.

How to stay unhappy: Keep expecting other people to fix your life for you.

Discipline isn’t willpower, it’s prioritization. You don’t push through a hangover. You skip the night out. You don’t force yourself to exercise, you sign up for the race.

New Rule: People either make your life better or they can get the fuck out of it.

The worst thing that ever happened to you will either define you or refine you. You choose.

A true friend will risk your anger to help your future self.

If your values aren’t tested, they’re not real. If they don’t cost you, they don’t matter.

Your purpose is not found, it is created by doing things that feel fun and useful.

Your beliefs follow your desires, not the other way around.

The trick isn’t to get away from the pain. The trick is to find something so important that the pain ceases to matter at all.

One of the most beneficial traits in both relationships and life: being nearly impossible to offend.

Resentment is the compound interest on conversations you were too afraid to have.