459 Quotes by Mark Manson

You are going to be incompatible with most.

We can be truly successful only at things we are willing to fail at.

It’s the backwards law again: the more you try to be certain about something, the more uncertain and insecure you will feel. But.

Our struggles determine our successes.

Because there’s an infinite amount of things we can now see or know, there are also an infinite number of ways we can discover that we don’t measure up, that we’re not good enough, that things aren’t as great as they could be.

Our values determine the metrics by which we measure ourselves and everyone else.

This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes.

I once heard an artist say that when a person has no problems, the mind automatically finds a way to invent some.

The two go together. You cannot be an attractive and life-changing presence to some women without being a joke or an embarrassment to others. You simply can’t. You have to be controversial. You have to polarize. It’s the name of the game. And getting good at the game is learning to open yourself up enough emotionally, learning.