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“his acceptance of my death, this understanding of my own fragility, has made everything easier—untangling my addictions, identifying and confronting my own entitlement, accepting responsibility for my own problems—suffering through my fears and uncertainties, accepting my failures and embracing rejections—it has all been made lighter by the thought of my own death..”

“Bukowski once wrote, “We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by life’s trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.”

Excerpt From: Mark Manson. “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.” iBooks.

“ we lose the benefits of experiencing healthy doses of pain, a loss that disconnects us from the reality of the world around us.”

Excerpt From: Mark Manson. “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.” iBooks.

“This book will not teach you how to gain or achieve, but rather how to lose and let go. It will teach you to take inventory of your life and scrub out all but the most important items. It will teach you to close your eyes and trust that you can fall backwards and still be okay. It will teach you to give fewer fucks. ”

Excerpt From: Mark Manson. “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.” iBooks.

“I once heard an artist say that when a person has no problems, the mind automatically finds a way to invent some. I think what most people—especially educated, pampered middle-class white people—consider “life problems” are really just side effects of not having anything more important to worry about.”

Excerpt From: Mark Manson. “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.” iBooks.

“Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.”

Excerpt From: Mark Manson. “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.” iBooks.

“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”

Excerpt From: Mark Manson. “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.” iBooks.

“There’s a saying in Texas: “The smallest dog barks the loudest.” A confident man doesn’t feel a need to prove that he’s confident. A rich woman doesn’t feel a need to convince anybody that she’s rich. Either you are or you are not. And if you’re dreaming of something all the time, then you’re reinforcing the same unconscious reality over and over: that you are not that.”