I came to the startling realization that if there really is no reason to do anything, then there is also no reason to not do anything; that in the fa… - Mark Manson

If there really is no reason to do anything, then there is also no reason to not do anything

by spending the majority of my short life avoiding what was painful and uncomfortable, I had essentially been avoiding being alive at all.

No, being heroic is the ability to conjure hope where there is none. To strike a match to light up the void. To show us a possibility for a better world — not a better world we want to exist, but a better world we didn’t know could exist. To take a situation where everything seems to be absolutely fucked and still somehow make it good.

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

I try to live with few rules, but one that I’ve adopted over the years is this: if it’s down to me being screwed up, or everybody else being screwed up, it is far, far, far more likely that I’m the one who’s screwed up.