Mark Manson Quotes

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.

I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get through life. If you have nothing to say, smile. Look up at the sky and smile. Just be grateful.

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

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, 'I feel good, I have my health, and I'm so blessed.' That's the way I choose to look at it.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

The goal at the end of the day is for all of us to find a little bit more peace in life and with ourselves and to feel a little more comfortable in the world.

Just trying to keep going. Just try to stay in the present the best I can. Not get too big-headed or too down on myself.

I try not to worry too much about anything any more, and enjoy every day as it comes.

I don't live life with a ton of regrets.

You've got to tune out the other people and tune in to what's going on inside. Love yourself. Nourish your body.

Be happy now. It's a great Western disease that we'll be happy in the future - when we get higher status or that BMW or that promotion or this project finished. Instead, be happy now.

There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?'

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.