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.

Constant positivity is a form of avoidance, not a valid solution to life’s problems

“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.

Decision-making based on emotional intuition, without the aid of reason to keep it in line, pretty much always sucks.

we shouldn’t always trust our own emotions. In fact, I believe we should make a habit of questioning them.

Whatever makes us happy today will no longer make us happy tomorrow, because our biology always needs something more.

And if you think at any point you’re allowed to stop climbing, I’m afraid you’re missing the point. Because the joy is in the climb itself.

What you consider ‘friendship’ is really just your constant attempts to impress people.”

This is why not giving a fuck is so key. This is why it’s going to save the world. And it’s going to save it by accepting that the world is totally fucked and that’s all right, because it’s always been that way, and always will be.

: not giving a fuck works in reverse. If pursuing the positive isa negative, then pursuing the negative generates the positive.