Mark Manson Quotes

There are only three things that change your life: love, discipline and loss.

One is hard to find, one is hard to master, and the other hurts like a motherfucker. Good luck.

Every healthy relationship starts with two people who have healthy relationships with themselves.

Any toxic relationship is the result of at least one person’s toxic relationship with themselves.

You don’t build resilience by feeling good all the time. You build resilience by getting better at feeling bad.

Being busy is not being able to add anything else to your calendar. Being fulfilled is not wanting to add anything else to your calendar. Don’t confuse one for the other.

Progress feels like nothing’s happening when you're mid-journey. You only see how far you’ve come once you stop and look back.

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.

Self-doubt doesn't go away when you succeed. In fact, the higher the stakes get, the more doubt will continue to show up.

We think we will regret taking risks, but we are far more likely to regret playing it safe. Failure fades. Missed opportunities do not.

Romeo and Juliet is synonymous with “romance” in our culture today. It is seen as the love story in English-speaking culture, an emotional ideal to live up to. Yet when you really get down to what happens in the story, these kids are absolutely out of their fucking minds. And they just killed themselves to prove it!

If you get your mind in order, everything else gets that much easier.

Challenge yourself to find the good and beautiful thing inside of everyone. It’s there. It’s your job to find it. Not their job to show you.

It turns out that adversity and failure are actually useful and even necessary for developing strong-minded and successful adults.

We are defined by what we choose to reject. And if we reject nothing we essentially have no identity at all

The problem isn’t that we don’t know how not to get punched in the face. The problem is that, at some point, likely a long time ago, we got punched in face, and instead of punching back, we decided we deserved it.

Everybody enjoys what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy, and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make money and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when they walk into the room. Everybody wants that. It’s easy to want that. A more interesting question, a question that most people never consider, is, “What pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for?” Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out.