The truth is, I do some of my best writing at 3 A.M. while blasting ‘Every Time I Die’ into my ear drums. Mark Manson Read Quote
People want to offer opportunities to people they care about. They want to help people they believe are good people or have shared life experiences with. Mark Manson Read Quote
The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn’t? Mark Manson Read Quote
We start caring way too much about that new TV show or how many likes we’re getting on Facebook or what our mother will think of our new house plant. These are bad values that turn us into frivolous people. Mark Manson Read Quote
Obviously, we all want to feel pleasure. It can’t be one of our highest priorities because, simply put, anything worthwhile in life is going to be un-pleasurable at times. Pleasure is the type of thing that if you get the other stuff right, pleasure will happen on its own. Mark Manson Read Quote
We all have great aspirations for ourselves, but if you expect yourself to change the world tomorrow, then you’re going to just drown yourself in anxiety and constant feelings of inadequacy. Mark Manson Read Quote
I’m your typical highly educated, progressive white dude. I’ve lived my life resisting racism both within myself and in the society around me. Mark Manson Read Quote
It’s possible to fall in love with somebody who doesn’t treat us well, who makes us feel worse about ourselves, who doesn’t hold the same respect for us as we do for them, or who has such a dysfunctional life themselves that they threaten to bring us down with them. Mark Manson Read Quote