Here below are a few of the best quotes from the famous book ‘The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck’ By Mark Manson
“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
― Mark Manson
“You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you’re going to get fucked.”
― Mark Manson
“The desire for a more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”
― Mark Manson
“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.
Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable.”
― Mark Manson
“Unhealthy love is based on two people trying to escape their problems through their emotions for each other—in other words, they’re using each other as an escape. Healthy love is based on two people acknowledging and addressing their problems with each other’s support.”
― Mark Manson
“Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.”
― Mark Manson
“To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is, therefore, a form of action.”
― Mark Manson
“This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes.”
― Mark Manson
“Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.”
― Mark Manson
“Our crisis is no longer material; it’s existential, it’s spiritual. We have so much fucking stuff and so many opportunities that we don’t even know what to give a fuck about anymore.”
― Mark Manson
“Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a fuck about what’s truly fuckworthy.”
― Mark Manson
“In my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things. I have also not given a fuck about many people and many things. And like the road not taken, it was the fucks not given that made all the difference.”
― Mark Manson
“The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.”
― Mark Manson