Mark Manson Quotes

Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important.

Your problems don’t break you. Your resistance to them does.

Goals are the actions you think about but don’t do. Habits are the actions you do but don’t think about.
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Better goals require a lot of effort and change little. Better habits will change everything.

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

You are always free to choose. But you are not free from the consequences of that choice.

Most people tell themselves that if they felt better, they’d do the thing—when it’s actually doing the thing that makes you feel better.

The one productivity system that controls all others: your emotions. 

When you are in love with what you’re doing, everything gets easier. 

When you hate what you’re doing, no productivity hack will save you.

At some point you realize that the permission you’ve been waiting for all along was your own.

Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Avoiding conflict doesn't protect a relationship. It lets one person suffer in silence while the other suffers by wrongly thinking everything is fine.

The fear of failure doesn’t prevent failure, it guarantees it.

You’ve already survived every terrible thing you’ve ever been through. That’s a pretty good track record.

You can’t force your values on anyone else, but you can inspire them by actually living yours.

Everything that matters most in life will sometimes bore you.

Your marriage will bore you.
Your career will bore you.
Your kids will bore you.

But boredom isn’t a sign that you chose wrong. It’s a signal that you have chosen to make something more important than your own momentary pleasure. It’s the hidden fee that comes with purpose and meaning.

Strength isn’t being tough. It’s choosing not to turn into an asshole when you have every right to be.