Mark Manson

One day, you and everyone you love will die. And beyond a small group of people for an extremely brief period of time, little of what you say or do will ever matter. This is the Uncomfortable Truth of life. And everything you think or do is but an elaborate avoidance of it. We are inconsequential cosmic dust, bumping and milling about on a tiny blue speck. We imagine our own importance. We invent our purpose—we are nothing.

“With great responsibility comes great power.”

The more we choose to accept responsibility in our lives, the more power we will exercise over our lives. Accepting responsibility for our problems is thus the first step to solving them.

You stand in front of the mirror and repeat affirmations saying that you’re beautiful because you feel as though you’re not beautiful already

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
Or put more simply:
Don’t try.

Notice how sometimes when you stop giving a fuck, everything seems to fall into place

Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience

Not giving a fuck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different

The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in not having problems in the first place

I wanted the result and not the process. I was in love with not the fight but only the victory