Mark Manson Quotes

Life is a rotten lottery. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

Life is not always going to be roses and rainbows. You are going to have uncomfortable moments. It's what we do with those moments that is going to count and determine our destiny.

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.

Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.

I hail from a small village and whatever I have achieved is simply because of fate.

There's no such thing as anybody who can't be beat; everybody can be beat. It's a question of how hard you're willing to work. It's a question of the environment, the surroundings. Frankly, there's a lot of issues with timing.

Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.

Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion - and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in life and choose my own path. But at the same time, I realize that things happen the way they're supposed to.

A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

Where one door shuts another opens.

The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.

Your response to opportunities, adversities and calling, determine the type of leader you become.

Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes--they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.

I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for whatever reasons that are irrelevant in this moment.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.