Mark Manson Quotes

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.

"You know, it's funny. We tend to always assume other people are thinking about us as much as we're thinking about ourselves. But the truth is, that everyone else is too busy worrying about what other people are thinking about them, to bother noticing us in the first place".

The greatest romantic relationships are when both people think they're the one who got lucky

"Life is about loving people, not about trying to impress them".

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