Mark Manson Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Happiness comes from solving problems. [...] Happiness is a constant work-in-progress. The solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

2. Here’s what a lot of people don’t get: the opposite of happiness is not anger or sadness. If you’re angry or sad, that means you still give a fuck about something. That means something still matters. That means you still have hope. No, the opposite of happiness is hopelessness, an endless gray horizon of resignation and indifference. It’s the belief that everything is fucked, so why do anything at all? Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope

3. I see practical enlightenment as becoming comfortable with the idea that some suffering is always inevitable, that no matter what you do, life is comprised of failures, loss, regrets, and even death. The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, Rewire Your Mindset, The Fitness Mindset, Meltdown 4 Books Collection Set

4. The vast majority of your life will be boring and not noteworthy, and that’s okay. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

5. Without acknowledging the ever-present gaze of death, the superficial will appear important, and the important will appear superficial. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

6. Because when we give too many fucks, when we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times, that’s when life fucks us. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

7. Fuck Yes or No applies to relationships as well. My wife used to work with a guy who got married because it seemed like the right thing to do.You do your taxes because it seems like the right thing to do. You wipe your infant’s ass because it seems like the right thing to do. You don’t marry someone because it seems like the right thing to do. You marry them because you can’t fucking imagine ever not wanting to be with them.Unsurprisingly, four years later, he was cheating on his wife every chance he got. The marriage was not a Fuck Yes for him. It should have been a No from Day 1.

8. Remember, it’s your job to look for something cool in everyone you meet; it’s not their job to show you. This is life, not a fucking sales convention.

9. The Law of Fuck Yes or No states that when you want to get involved with someone new, in whatever capacity, they must inspire you to say Fuck Yes in order for you to proceed with them.The Law of Fuck Yes or No also states that when you want to get involved with someone new, in whatever capacity, THEY must also respond with a Fuck Yes in order for you to proceed with them.

10. The vast majority of your life will be boring and not noteworthy, and that’s okay. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

11. There’s a grey area in dating many people get hung up on — a grey area where feelings are ambiguous or one person has stronger feelings than the other. [...]Most dating advice exists to solve this grey area for people. Say this line. Text her this. Call him this many times. Wear that.Much of it gets exceedingly analytical, to the point where some men and women actually spend more time analyzing behaviors than actually, you know, behaving.

12. Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is apositive experience. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive approach to Living a Good Life

13. Why would you ever be excited to be with someone who is not excited to be with you? If they’re not happy with you now, what makes you think they’ll be happy to be with you later? Why do you make an effort to convince someone to date you when they make no effort to convince you?What does that say about you? That you believe you need to convince people to be with you? (Hint: it implies that you wouldn’t even want to be with yourself.)You wouldn’t buy a dog that bites you all the time. You wouldn’t be friends with someone who regularly ditches you. And you wouldn’t work a job that doesn’t pay you. Then why the hell are you trying to make a girlfriend out of a woman who doesn’t want to date you? Where’s your fucking self-respect?

14. Without acknowledging the ever-present gaze of death, the superficial will appear important, and the important will appear superficial. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

15. Wrapped up in that sweet guy who treats you so well, except goes weeks without calling you and suddenly disappears after a couple drinks and a round of the horizontal polka? Been wondering if he really likes you? Do his excuses of being so busy all the time seem legit? It doesn’t sound like the answer is a Fuck yes. Then it’s time to move on.