Mark Manson

"Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it."

"The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience."

"Entitled people who blame others for their own emotions and actions do so because they believe that if they constantly paint themselves as victims, eventually someone will come along and save them, an…"

"This, in a nutshell, is what “self-improvement” is really about: prioritizing better values, choosing better things to give a fuck about. Because when you give better fucks, you get better problems. A…"

"I try to live with few rules, but one that I’ve adopted over the years is this: if it’s down to me being screwed up, or everybody else being screwed up, it is far, far, far more likely that I’m the on…"

"For victims, the hardest thing to do in the world is to hold themselves accountable for their problems. They’ve spent their whole life believing that others are responsible for their fate. That first …"

"To become truly great at something, you have to dedicate shit-tons of time and energy to it. The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so because they're obsessed with improvemen…"

"You too are going to die, and that’s because you too were fortunate enough to have lived."