It's easy to want the benefits of something; it's hard to want the cost. — Mark Manson Benefits Copy Share Image
'War and Peace' may be the most epic thing ever created by a human being. — Mark Manson Being Copy Share Image
“I’m always wrong about everything, over and over and over again, and that’s why my life improves.” — Mark Manson Improves Copy Share Image
Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved. — Mark Manson Life Copy Share Image
“Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.” — Mark Manson Change Copy Share Image
“Inspiration → Motivation → Action → Inspiration → Motivation → Action → Etc. Your” — Mark Manson Inspiration Copy Share Image
If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government. — Mark Manson Caring Copy Share Image
“There’s a certain level of joy and meaning that you reach in life only when you’ve spent decades investing in a single… — Mark Manson Investing Copy Share Image
“The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in not having problems in the first place. To be happy… — Mark Manson First place Copy Share Image
At some point, most of us reach a place where we're afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only… — Mark Manson Failure Copy Share Image
“As the existential philosopher Albert Camus said (and I’m pretty sure he wasn’t on LSD at the time): ‘You will never be… — Mark Manson Existential Copy Share Image
People want to offer opportunities to people they care about. They want to help people they believe are good people or have… — Mark Manson Believe Copy Share Image
“Denying negative emotions leads to experiencing deeper and more prolonged negative emotions and to emotional dysfunction. Constant positivity is a form of… — Mark Manson Negative emotions Copy Share Image
“If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don’t… — Mark Manson Art work Copy Share Image
That first morning that I woke up self-employed, terror quickly consumed me. I found myself sitting with my laptop and realized, for… — Mark Manson Consequences Copy Share Image
“And while there's nothing wrong with good business, the problem is that giving too many fucks is bad for your mental health.… — Mark Manson Business Copy Share Image
“Often the only difference between a problem being painful or being powerful is a sense that we chose it, and that we… — Mark Manson Adversity Copy Share Image
“Subtlety #3: Whether you realize it or not, you are always choosing what to give a fuck about. People aren’t just born… — Mark Manson Subtlety Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is a false god. Research shows that people who focus their energy on superficial pleasures end up more anxious, more emotionally… — Mark Manson Emotionally unstable 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
In our culture, many of us idealize love. We see it as some lofty cure-all for all of life's problems. Our movies… — Mark Manson History Copy Share Image
“Just as we look back in horror at the lives of people five hundred years ago, I imagine people five hundred years… — Mark Manson Years ago Copy Share Image
Aside from birthing me my first grey hairs and keeping me up at night more times than I'd like to count, 'The… — Mark Manson Art Copy Share Image
“All of human civilization... is basically a result of immortality projects: the cities and governments and structures and authorities in places today… — Mark Manson Death Copy Share Image
“There’s a bluntness to Russian culture that generally rubs Westerners the wrong way. Gone are the fake niceties and verbal webs of… — Mark Manson Russia Copy Share Image
“Everybody enjoys what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy, and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing… — Mark Manson Easy life Copy Share Image
“Just as we look back in horror at the lives of people five hundred years ago, I imagine people five hundred years… — Mark Manson Years ago Copy Share Image
“People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high; being self-righteous and morally superior feels good.” — Mark Manson Offended Copy Share Image
“But entitled people, because they are incapable of acknowledging their own problems openly and honestly, are incapable of improving their lives in… — Mark Manson Entitled People Copy Share Image
“Basically, the more options we’re given, the less satisfied we become with whatever we choose, because we’re aware of all the other… — Mark Manson Choice Copy Share Image
“I wanted the reward and not the struggle. I wanted the result and not the process. I was in love with not… — Mark Manson Love Copy Share Image
“Travel is a fantastic self-development tool, because it extricates you from the values of your culture and shows you that another society… — Mark Manson Different values 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
“The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a… — Mark Manson Failure Copy Share Image
“Very few animals on earth have the ability to think cogent thoughts to begin with, but we humans have the luxury of… — Mark Manson Animal Copy Share Image
“Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times… — Mark Manson Failure Copy Share Image
“conventional life advice—all the positive and happy self-help stuff we hear all the time—is actually fixating on what you lack. It lasers… — Mark Manson Conventional Copy Share Image
“What’s interesting about the backwards law is that it’s called ‘backwards’ for a reason: not giving a fuck works in reverse…The failures… — Mark Manson Backwards Copy Share Image
“Death is the only thing we can know with any certainty. And as such, it must be the compass by which we… — Mark Manson Certainty Copy Share Image
“The common cultural narratives would tell me that I somehow failed myself, that I’m a quitter or a loser, that I just… — Mark Manson Narratives Copy Share Image
