“Freedom itself demands discomfort.” ― Mark Manson
“Self-Improvement and success often occur together. But that doesn’t mean they’re the same thing.” ― Mark Manson
“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.” ― Mark Manson
“Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.” ― Mark Manson
“Life is one never-ending stream of pain, and to grow is not to find a way to avoid that stream but, rather, to dive into it and successfully navigate its depths.” ― Mark Manson
“Don’t hope for a life without problems,” the panda said. “There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.” ― Mark Manson
“The better things get, the more we perceive threats where there are none and the more upset we become. And it is at the heart of the paradox of progress.” ― Mark Manson
“What most people don’t understand is that passion is the result of action, not the cause of it.” ― Mark Manson
“A good life is not a life without problems. A good life is a life with good problems.” ― Mark Manson
“The more you desperately want to be rich, the more poor and unworthy you feel, regardless of how much money you actually make.” ― Mark Manson
“You can’t be an important and life-changing presence for some people without also being a joke and an embarrassment to others.” ― Mark Manson
“To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action.” ― Mark Manson
“Leaders need their followers to be perpetually dissatisfied; it’s good for the leadership business. If everything were perfect and great, there’d be no reason to follow anybody.” ― Mark Manson
“We can be truly successful only at things we are willing to fail at.” ― Mark Manson
“No matter where you go, there’s a five-hundred-pound load of sh*t waiting for you. And that’s perfectly fine. The point isn’t to get away from the sh*t. The point is to find the sh*t you enjoy dealing with.” ― Mark Manson
“Self-awareness is like an onion. There are multiple layers to it, and the more you peel them back, the more likely you’re going to start crying at inappropriate time.” ― Mark Manson
“Commitment gives you freedom because you’re no longer distracted by the unimportant and frivolous.” ― Mark Manson
“You can’t build a better mind without challenging your own beliefs and assumptions.” ― Mark Manson
“Our psyche needs hope to survive the way a fish needs water. Hope is the fuel for our mental engine.” ― Mark Manson
“We are the safest and most prosperous humans in the history of the world, yet we are feeling more hopeless than ever before.” ― Mark Manson
“Don’t hope for better. Just be better. Be something better. Be more compassionate, more resilient, more humble, more disciplined.” ― Mark Manson
“Commitment allows you to focus intently on a few highly important goals and achieve a greater degree of success than you otherwise would.” ― Mark Manson
“True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.” ― Mark Manson
“We are actually often happier with less. When we’re overloaded with opportunities and options, we suffer from what psychologists refer to as the paradox of choice.” ― Mark Manson
“It turns out that adversity and failure are actually useful and even necessary for developing strong-minded and successful adults.” ― Mark Manson
“If pursuing the positive is a negative, then pursuing the negative generates the positive. The pain you pursue in the gym results in better all-around health and energy. The failures in business are what lead to a better understanding of what’s necessary to be successful.” ― Mark Manson
“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.” ― Mark Manson
“Don’t hope for the better. Just be better.” ― Mark Manson
“This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes.” ― Mark Manson
“You cannot be a powerful and life-changing presence to some people without being a joke or an embarrassment to others.” ― Mark Manson
“Carefully choose what to care about.” ― Mark Manson
“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience.” ― Mark Manson
“Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.” ― Mark Manson
“We are responsible for experiences that aren’t our fault all the time. This is part of life.” ― Mark Manson
“Problems never stop; they merely get exchanged and/or upgraded.” ― Mark Manson
“Challenge yourself to find the good and beautiful thing inside of everyone. It’s there. It’s your job to find it. Not their job to show you.” ― Mark Manson
” Everything we think and feel about a situation ultimately comes back to how valuable we perceive it to be.” ― Mark Manson
“Life is about not knowing and then doing something anyway.” ― Mark Manson
“Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.“ Mark Manson
“Whether we consciously recognize it or not, we are always responsible for our experiences.” ― Mark Manson
