Mark Manson Quotes

The vast majority of your life will be boring and not noteworthy, and that’s okay.

when it comes down to it, if you feel crappy it’s because your brain is telling you that there’s a problem that’s unaddressed or unresolved. In other words, negative emotions are a call to action. When you feel them, it’s because you’re supposed to do something. Positive emotions, on the other hand, are rewards for taking the proper action.

Your false self needs constant applause.

Your true self doesn’t give a fuck.

The person you marry is the person you fight with. The house you buy is the house you repair. The dream job you take is the job you stress over. Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice to it. Whatever will make us feel good, will inevitably will also make us feel bad.

Statistically speaking, a normal person is physically unhealthy, emotionally anxious and depressed, socially lonely, and financially in debt. FUCK BEING NORMAL.

If you are not turning down things that excite you, then you're not focused enough about something that matters.

The last person we are objective about is ourselves.

Dont make assumptions about yourself.

Dont make assumptions about people.

Be the partner you want to have

If you have to tell someone you're that, then you're not that.

There is no such thing as a life without problems.

No one is coming to save you

People tend to overestimate their romantic relationships and underestimate their friendships, i think the most stark example of this is that if you look at mental health data and happiness data of people who are single, they're generally happy and healthy, as a cohort. If you look at people who don't have any friends, they're horribly unhealthy. In fact there's a statistic that gets passed around a lot, that says "Social isolation is just as adverse to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day". Which is shocking, you wouldn't assume that.

"I say, if you cringe over yourself, that's good. It means that you have grown. You should actually never stop cringing.