Mark Manson Quotes

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

I remember once imagining what my life would be like, what I'd be like. I pictured having all these qualities, strong positive qualities that people could pick up on from across the room. But as time passed, few became qualities that I actually had. And all the possibilities I faced, and the sorts of people I could be, all of them got reduced every year to fewer and fewer until finally they got reduced to one - to who I am. And that's who I am.

There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

Something really intense happened to me during the 'SNL' performance. It felt like the person I was made to be faced the person I'm becoming. It was the first time I felt like I was able to make any sense of ownership of my work.

I am Thomas Muller, and I want to be like me.