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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Quotes

“Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.”

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“Certainty is the enemy of growth.”

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“Don’t hope for a life without problems, there’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.”

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“Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.”

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“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.”

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“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.”

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“Happiness comes from solving problems. Happiness is a constant work-in-progress. The solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems.”

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“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. I have learned this from experience. I have been the *sshole acting out based on my own insecurities and flawed certainties more times than I can count. It’s not pretty.”

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

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

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“If you think about a young child trying to learn to walk, that child will fall down and hurt itself hundreds of times. But at no point does that child ever stop and think: Oh, I guess walking just isn’t for me. I’m not good at it.”

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“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.”

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“In my life, I have given a f*ck about many people and many things. I have also not given a f*ck about many people and many things. And like the road not taken, it was the f*cks not given that made all the difference.”

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“It's not about giving a f*ck about everything your partner gives a f*ck about; it's about giving a f*ck about your partner regardless of the f*cks he or she gives. That's unconditional love, baby.”

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“Life is about not knowing and then doing something anyway.”

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“Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.”

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“Many people become so obsessed with being 'right' about their life that they never end up actually living it.”

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“When you stop behaving in a way that’s true to your masculine self, you repel women and drive them away. And instead of falling for Mr. Nice Guy, that beautiful woman ends up in the arms of Mr. Not So Nice (someone less caring, less kind, but a lot more attractive).”


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“Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a f*ck about what’s truly f*ckworthy.”

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“Not giving a f*ck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different.”

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“Our crisis is no longer material; it’s existential, it’s spiritual. We have so much f*cking stuff and so many opportunities that we don’t even know what to give a f*ck about anymore.”

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“Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many f*cks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a f*ck about the pain, you become unstoppable.”

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“People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high; being self-righteous and morally superior feels good.”

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“Shitty values involve tangible external goals outside of our control. Better values are process-oriented.”

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“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”

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“The key to a good life is not giving a f*ck about more; it's giving a f*ck about less, giving a f*ck about only what is true and immediate and important.”

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“The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.”

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“There is a simple realization from which all personal improvement and growth emerges. This is the realization that we, individually, are responsible for everything in our lives, no matter the external circumstances. We don’t always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond. Whether we consciously recognize it or not, we are always responsible for our experiences. It’s impossible not to be. Choosing to not consciously interpret events in our lives is still an interpretation of the events of our lives.”

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“This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes.”

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“To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action.”

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“To not give a f*ck about adversity, you must first give a f*ck about something more important than adversity.”

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“Travel is a fantastic self-development tool, because it extricates you from the values of your culture and shows you that another society can live with entirely different values and still function and not hate themselves. This exposure to different cultural values and metrics then forces you to reexamine what seems obvious in your own life and to consider that perhaps it’s not necessarily the best way to live.”

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“There will never be anyone exactly like you. You were given special gifts and talents to share with the world, and even though everybody has special gifts and talents, nobody will use theirs quite the same way you do.”


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