Mark Manson Quotes

“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.”

“The most meaningful freedom in your life comes from your commitments, the things in life for which you have chosen to sacrifice.”

“The older I get, the more I realize that success at most things isn't about finding the one trick or secret nobody knows about.

It's consistently doing the boring, mundane things everyone knows about but is too unfocused/undisciplined to do.

Get good at boring.”

“The only way to be truly confident in yourself is to become comfortable with what you lack.”

“The only way to become more successful than most people is to be willing to do something most people aren’t willing to do.”

“The real 'morning routine' nobody tells you about:

1. Eat a reasonable dinner, no caffeine or alcohol
2. Stop looking at screens around 9PM
3. Get into bed by 10PM
4. Relax, meditate, do some light reading
5. Wake up early feeling f*cking great and ready to go”

“The way you measure yourself is how you measure others, and how you assume others measure you.”

“There is a momentum to life — you're either growing or you're dying.”

“There’s a paradox with self-improvement: the ultimate goal of self-improvement is to reach the point where you no longer feel the need to improve yourself.”

“When life gives you lemons, lean back and squeeze that sh*t into your eyeballs. Then glare back at life and say: That all you got, m*therf*cker?”