459 Quotes by Mark Manson

Being slapped also taught me that you can’t always control how people react to you. Some people are completely out of their minds or they behave very inappropriately. You can’t help this. You cannot control what happens in every interaction. The sooner you accept this, the better off you will be.

It’s the backwards law again: the more you try to be certain about something, the more uncertain and insecure you will feel. But the converse is true as well: the more you embrace being uncertain and not knowing, the more comfortable you will feel in knowing what you don’t know.

Certainty is the enemy of growth. Nothing is for certain until it has already happened – and even then, it’s still debatable. That’s why accepting the inevitable imperfections of our values is necessary for any growth to take place. Instead.

Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head.

There are some experiences that you can have only when you’ve lived in the same place for five years, when you’ve been with the same person for over a decade, when you’ve been working on the same skill or craft for half your lifetime.

Our psyche needs hope to survive the way a fish needs water. Hope is the fuel for our mental engine.

George Orwell said that to see what’s in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.

Moral gaps are where our values are born.

Self-control is an illusion. It’s an illusion that occurs when both brains are aligned and pursuing the same course of action.