"Life will never conform to all of our desires. Ever."
- Mark Manson
Awareness
"Don’t hope for a life without problems. There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems."
- Mark Manson
Awareness
"Pleasure is not happiness. Pleasure is what’s marketed to us. It’s what we fixate on. It’s what we use to numb and distract ourselves."
- Mark Manson
Awareness
"Chances are you’re starting to give too many fucks about too many unnecessary things."
- Mark Manson
Awareness
"Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it."
- Mark Manson
Motivation
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity