"Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it."
"The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it."
"We all have values for ourselves—ideas of what we want to be or do or have in our lives. But what we value isn't necessarily what we want to spend our time, energy, and money on."
"Uncertainty is the root of all progress and all growth. As the old adage goes, the man who believes he knows everything learns nothing."
"What you're meant to do in life is constantly going to evolve, it's going to change, and so your definition of success should evolve and change with it."
"We are defined more by the opportunities we miss than the ones we take."
"Problems may be inevitable, but the meaning of each problem is not. We get to control what our problems mean based on how we choose to think about them, the standard by which we choose to measure them."
"Action isn't just the effect of motivation; it's also the cause of it."
"There is no such thing as a 'true' self. What we think of as our selves is just a story we've told ourselves about ourselves."
"The path to happiness is a path full of shitheaps and shame. You have to choose which shitheaps you want to deal with."
"When we're constantly pushing ourselves to do and experience more, we never get to feel fulfilled. We never get to sit back and enjoy what we've already accomplished."
"The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it's giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important."
"The only way to be comfortable with death is to understand and see yourself as something bigger than yourself; to choose values that stretch beyond serving yourself, that are simple and immediate and controllable and tolerant of the chaotic world around you."
"Our problems may be unique, but the solutions to all our problems are universal."
"The more we try to avoid suffering, the more we suffer, because the more we try to avoid the pain, the more painful our experience becomes."
"Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something."
"The only way to be comfortable with being different is to accept that you are different and that's perfectly fine."
"Entitlement is the opposite of respect. It's the belief that you deserve something, rather than the recognition that you have to earn it."
"Most people don't know what they want or what they're feeling. And because of that, they often act like assholes."
"Our minds often confuse us into thinking we're in control, but in reality, we're the ones being controlled."
"The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it's giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important."
"Action isn't just the effect of motivation; it's also the cause of it."
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for happiness in the same place you lost it."
"The most important thing in life is to decide what's most important."
"We don't always control what happens to us, but we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond."
Written by Famous Author : Mark Manson
The
Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living
a Good Life
