459 Quotes by Mark Manson

Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.

People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.

The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us.

What's interesting about emotions is that the more you try to control them or to bottle them up, the stronger they get. So, the more I try to stop being sad, the sadder I'm going to get.

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

I think my approach to a creative career was very entrepreneurial. Even though I'm a writer, I've always viewed my work much in the same way as a startup or marketer might view their work.

Seeking approval and people pleasing forces you to alter your actions and speech to no longer reflect what you actually think or feel.

What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why would I change that?

My belief is that we all already care about something important. We all already know what is important and meaningful for ourselves. The problem is just that many of us have lost touch with it.