“If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and think about it; just start working on it.” — Mark Manson Art work Copy Share Image
“taking responsibility for our problems is far more important, because that’s where the real learning comes from.” — Mark Manson Responsibility Copy Share Image
Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind. — Mark Manson Change Copy Share Image
“Disappointment Panda would be the hero that none of us would want but all of us would need. He'd be the proverbial… — Mark Manson Disappointment Copy Share Image
“The question is not whether we evaluate ourselves against others; rather, the question is by what standard do we measure ourselves?” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it… — Mark Manson Expectations Copy Share Image
“we, individually, are responsible for everything in our lives, no matter the external circumstances” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“The key to a good life is not giving a f*** about more; its giving a f*** about less, giving a f***… — Mark Manson Good life Copy Share Image
Death is important for a couple reasons. The first is that death creates scarcity in our life, which therefore gives our decisions… — Mark Manson Death Copy Share Image
“And this is what’s so dangerous about a society that coddles itself more and more from the inevitable discomforts of life: we… — Mark Manson Death Copy Share Image
Many people get into a relationship as a way to compensate for something they lack or hate within themselves. This is a… — Mark Manson Conditional love Copy Share Image
“Then, as we grow older and enter middle age, something else begins to change. Our energy level drops. Our identity solidifies. We… — Mark Manson Change Copy Share Image
In a strange way, I feel like we need to cultivate more boredom in our lives: like, boredom needs to be okay… — Mark Manson Boredom Copy Share Image
In 2008, after holding down a day job for all of six weeks, I gave up on the whole job thing to… — Mark Manson Business Copy Share Image
People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they're looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. Unfortunately,… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“if you feel crappy it’s because your brain is telling you that there’s a problem that’s unaddressed or unresolved. In other words,… — Mark Manson Call to action Copy Share Image
“We joke online about “first-world problems,” but we really have become victims of our own success. Stress-related health issues, anxiety disorders, and… — Mark Manson Depression Copy Share Image
“But for some reason, it appears that more and more people, particularly young people, are forgetting this. Numerous professors and educators have… — Mark Manson Education Copy Share Image
“I’ll give you a minute to unpretzel your brain and maybe read that again: Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting… — Mark Manson Feeling better Copy Share Image
“The big story for me personally over the past few years has been my ability to open myself up to commitment. I’ve… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Some examples of good, healthy values: honesty, innovation, vulnerability, standing up for oneself, standing up for others, self-respect, curiosity, charity, humility, creativity.… — Mark Manson Center of attention Copy Share Image
“A fixation on happiness inevitably amounts to a never-ending pursuit of “something else”—a new house, a new relationship, another child, another pay… — Mark Manson Children Copy Share Image
“All of human civilization, he says, is basically a result of immortality projects: the cities and governments and structures and authorities in… — Mark Manson Art form Copy Share Image
“Growth is an endlessly iterative process. When we learn something new, we don’t go from “wrong” to “right.” Rather, we go from… — Mark Manson Growth Copy Share Image
“Decision-making based on emotional intuition, without the aid of reason to keep it in line, pretty much always sucks.” — Mark Manson Decision making Copy Share Image
“If someone is worse than you, it’s likely because he hasn’t been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Many people become so obsessed with being "right" about their life that they never end up actually living it.” — Mark Manson Actually living Copy Share Image
“Nobody who is actually happy has to stand in front of a mirror and tell himself that he's happy.” — Mark Manson Happiness Copy Share Image
“We always think that we’re the ones who are fine. It’s everyone else who is screwed up. But” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Every new conversation, every new relationship, brings new challenges and opportunities for honest expression. — Mark Manson Challenges Copy Share Image
“The comedian Emo Philips once said, “I used to think the human brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then… — Mark Manson Brain Copy Share Image
“I didn’t choose this life; I didn’t choose this horrible, horrible condition. But I get to choose how to live with it;… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I believe productivity is a deeply personal thing. We all have different brains and, therefore, different preferences, perspectives, and situations where we… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
When people lay around whining to their therapists and ex-wives that they're finally going to 'change' themselves, they are promising something imaginary… — Mark Manson Change Copy Share Image
“Many celebrities are probably just as clueless about life as the people who gawk at them and follow their every move.” — Mark Manson Celebrities Copy Share Image
“Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance.” — Mark Manson Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress.” — Mark Manson Happiness Copy Share Image
“I was again fortunate, because this taught me at an early age that making money, by itself, was a lousy metric for… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Improvement at anything is based on a thousand of tiny failures, ...and the magnitude of your success is based on how many… — Mark Manson Failure Copy Share Image
“Entitlement closes in upon itself in a kind of narcissistic bubble, distorting anything and everything in such a way as to reinforce… — Mark Manson Entitlement Copy Share Image
