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Mark Manson Quotes

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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.”
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Tagged: Overcoming problems, Changing Your Beliefs, Viewing The World Differently
“True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.”
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Tagged: Happiness, Finding Your Joy, Problems, Inspirational
“To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action; it’s an activity, not something that is passively bestowed upon you, not something that you magically discover.”
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Tagged: Defining Happiness, What Is Happiness?, Being Happy
“If a person values self-gratification more than the intimacy they gain from a relationship, then they will stop sacrificing for the relationship and are likely to end up cheating.”
— Mark Manson, Why People Cheat in Relationships
Tagged: Why People Cheat, Cheating happens
“You can't be an important and life-changing presence for some people without being a joke and an embarrassment to others. You just can't.”
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Tagged: Before and after, Self-improvement, Happiness, the self-help industrial complex
“I believe that today we're facing a psychological epidemic, one in which people no longer realize it's okay for things to suck sometimes.”
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Tagged: Before and after, Self-improvement, Happiness, the self-help industrial complex
“When our relationships are conditional, we don’t really have relationships at all.”
— Mark Manson, Maybe You Don't Know What Love Is
Tagged: Love, Unconditional Love
“You should both support each other. But only because you choose to support and be supported. Not because you feel obligated or entitled.”
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
Tagged: support, Relationships, H4D-13
“Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your relationships. Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance.”
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Tagged: Insecurity, Anxiety, Overcoming Your Weaknesses, Suffering Through You Fear
“My life immediately got about 542% better when I realized that the information you consume online is predominantly made up of the 5% of each extreme view and that 90% of life actually occurs in the silent middle-ground where most of the population actually lives.”
— Mark Manson, 10 Life Lessons I Learned from Surviving My 20s
Tagged: Media Projections of the World Are Not The World, The Reality of Things, Arguments for Moderation In Media Consumption
“SELF-GRATIFICATION > INTIMACY = CHEATING”
— Mark Manson, Why People Cheat in Relationships
Tagged: Why People Cheat, Cheating happens
“What determines your success isn’t 'What do you want to enjoy?' The question is, 'What pain do you want to sustain?' The quality of your life is not determined by the quality of your positive experiences but the quality of your negative experiences. And to get good at dealing with negative experiences is to get good at dealing with life.”
— Mark Manson, The Most Important Question of Your Life
Tagged: How To Think, The Person You'll Become, Psychology
“Everybody wants 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 you walk into the room.

A more interesting question, a question that perhaps you’ve never considered before, 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.”
— Mark Manson, The Most Important Question of Your Life
Tagged: Psychology, The Person You'll Become
“You, me, and everything we do, will one day be forgotten. It will be as if we never existed, even though we did. Nobody will care. Just like right now, almost nobody cares what you actually say or do with your life.

And this is actually really good news: it means you can get away with a lot of stupid shit and people will forget and forgive you for it. It means that there’s absolutely no reason to not be the person that you want to be. The pain of un-inhibiting yourself will be fleeting and the reward will last a lifetime.”
— Mark Manson, 10 Life Lessons I Learned from Surviving My 20s
Tagged: 20s, Growing Up, Surviving Your 20s, Life Lessons
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