Mark Manson Quotes

There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Often, we need to ignore the words people say and attend to their underlying, urgent, life or death questions: Am I valuable? Am I loved? The great thing is that the answer is easy: Yes! The answer is always yes. We don't have to think too hard.

Paper Doll' is about being bullied, and about having someone in your life who is constantly trying to put you down, and trying to make you feel like you are not good enough being who you are.

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

You need to be feel beautiful on your own before a guy can make you feel beautiful, because it wont be a healthy relationship.

I'm lucky that I have a supportive partner who loves me when I'm bigger as well as slim.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.

When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.

If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.

You deserve love and you'll get it.

What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.