Mark Manson Quotes

With Instagram and Twitter, you're constantly looking at other people and comparing yourself to them, and it's just not beneficial. There is always going to be someone skinnier or prettier or with better skin, and that same girl you're looking at is comparing herself to someone else.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

Like anyone else, I can fall into these massive Instagram holes and start comparing myself to other people.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.

You could have the thickest skin but Instagram and Twitter still affect you. It makes you envious, even if you've got everything you could ever want.

I grew up watching YouTube and it was tough feeling like everyone I watched had a perfect life. I couldn't help but feel that my life sucked when I watched their videos.

It's important to remember that what you see on Instagram is not reality. I find it hard to not be on my phone the whole time comparing myself to what I see on social media.

Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.

The worst thing any of us can do for our self-esteem is compare ourselves to others, and that's especially true of women.

When it comes to personal appearance, people are quick to cast judgment on people who look better than them. It's part of the human inferiority complex.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else.

There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way.

I never Google myself. Only if I want to feel really terrible about myself would I do that.

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

I don't like to compare myself with anybody.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.