Mark Manson Quotes Page 5

“True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.”

“Uncertainty is the root of all progress and all growth. As the old adage goes, the man who believes he knows everything learns nothing. We cannot learn anything without first not knowing something. The more we admit we do not know, the more opportunities we gain to learn.”

“Unhealthy love is based on two people trying to escape their problems through their emotions for each other—in other words, they’re using each other as an escape. Healthy love is based on two people acknowledging and addressing their own problems with each other’s support.”

“We are defined by what we choose to reject. And if we reject nothing we essentially have no identity at all.”

“We can be truly successful only at something we’re willing to fail at. If we’re unwilling to fail, then we’re unwilling to succeed.”

“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive.”

“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”

“You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of f*cks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a f*ck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you’re going to get f*cked.”

“You too are going to die, and that's because you too were fortunate enough to have lived. You may not feel this. But go stand on a cliff sometime, and maybe you will.”

“5 ways to be a little less miserable:

1. Learn to say 'no'
2. Forgive some people, including yourself
3. Get some sleep (seriously, you look tired)
4. Let yourself fail/be embarrassed, it's no big deal
5. Stop engaging in positive and/or negative self-talk (it's all bullsh*t)”

“A toxic relationship = emotional dependence
Two people use each other for the approval and respect they are unable to give themselves.

A healthy relationship = emotional interdependence
Two people approve of and respect each other because they approve of and respect themselves.”

“Apparently the secret to becoming a morning person is to just get old.”

“By training yourself to start uncomfortable conversations, you liberate others to have the conversations they’ve desperately been wanting to have themselves. You could say this is largely what leadership is, the willingness to risk your own neck in a way that benefits others.”

“Confidence is not a belief in success. It's a comfort with failure.”

“Cut the crap.

Literally, cut the unnecessary distractions out of your life — delete apps, unfriend and unfollow toxic people, stop committing to activities you don't care about.

Life is too short.”

“Deep friendships come from giving up ones that don't work for you. A prosperous career begins with giving up diversions and alternatives. Loving relationships occur when giving up incompatible people. A long, healthy life comes from giving up crap that destroys your body. Simple.”

“Despite what every cliché says, we shouldn't necessarily trust our own emotions. In fact, we should make a habit of questioning them.”

“F*cks are inevitable. Therefore, if you don't find something truly f*ckworthy to give a f*ck about, then you will waste your f*cks on petty and frivolous causes.”

“If you're afraid that establishing a boundary with someone will upset them, that's usually proof that the boundary needs to be established.”

“It is impossible to ruin your life.”

“It's better to do something every day with no dream than to dream all day with nothing to do.”

“Learn to be happy alone. Then you will never have a reason to associate with people who make you feel worse.”

“Learning more is often the most seductive form of procrastination. Start doing.”

“Negative emotions are a call to action. They are nature's preferred agent to inspire change.”

“No one is going to be happy being with you if you can’t be happy with yourself.”

“People think life’s about avoiding getting knocked down. It’s not. It’s about learning how to get back up.”

“Procrastination is merely the avoidance of unpleasant emotions. Get comfortable with unpleasant emotions and the issue of procrastination takes care of itself.”

“Read books because you will never be able to meet and spend uninterrupted time with the thoughts of so many brilliant and unique people.”

“Some unexpected truths:

- The more you try to make people like you, the less they will.
- The more you hate a trait in others, the more likely you hate it in yourself.
- To be happy together, you first have to be able to be happy alone.
- The more you learn, the more you realize you still don't know.
- The more you fail, the more likely you are to succeed.”

“The more you try to force what doesn't feel right, the longer you delay finding what does.”