Mark Manson Quotes

Planet Earth is estimated to have a lifetime of nine billion years. And we're right smack in the middle of our lifetime. We've been in the universe for 4.5 billion years. So, that should mean something. We should sort of take a look at where we came from and where we are going.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

I don't think humanity is the highest form of life that will ever exist in the universe. Maybe that's a bit cynical. But most of the people I know are loving, kind, doing their best.

It is said that Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Western civilization, remarked, 'I think it would be a good idea.' That's how I feel about intelligent life on Earth, especially when I think about the question of what truly intelligent life might look like elsewhere in the universe.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.

I believe there's other forms of intelligence in the universe. I've seen and heard some pretty convincing UFO stuff. Besides, if we're the most intelligent things in the universe... well, that's just depressing.

We're all on-board the same planetary spaceship, but together, we can move mountains.

It would be selfish to believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe.

I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.

We all live downstream

I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.

If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god? And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment - from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies - how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.