Mark Manson Quotes

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'

To me, 'success' is happiness and my top tip for happiness would be to understand and learn to use perspective.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

We must be doing something to be happy.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

I always think about myself as, like, a regular person. I want to be able to enjoy everything.

If you have everything you want in life, including money, fame and being asked out on dates by 20 cute boys, and you are still unhappy then you have to go deep within yourself to fix the issue.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.