• If you are able to not give a f*ck about the pain your goals require, then you become unstoppable.

• Finding something important and meaningful in your life is perhaps the most productive use of your time and energy.

• You can’t merely be in love wi...

1.Be comfortable with being different, not being indifferent.

2. Find something meaningful to give a f*ck about – otherwise you’ll waste energy on meaningless worries.

3. You always have a choice over what to give a f*ck about – as we get older, we realise wha...

Freedom grants the opportunity for greater meaning, but by itself there is nothing necessarily meaningful about it. Ultimately, the only way to achieve meaning and a sense of importance in one’s life is through a rejection of alternatives, a narrowing of freedom, a choice of commitment to...

The way to be happy and fulfilled, Manson says, is to not give a f*ck about everything we’re told to care about.

Instead, get clear on what truly matters, focus your choices on those few priorities, and accept that in spite of that, you’ll still make stupid mistakes and suf...

Depth is where the gold is buried. And you have to stay committed to something and go deep to dig it up. That’s true in relationships, in a career, in building a great lifestyle— in everything.

Do something now, even if it’s really small, and let good actions cascade as a result.

The acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.

Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your rel...

• Instead of striving for certainty, we should be in constant search of doubt: doubt about our own beliefs, doubt our own feelings, doubt about what the future may hod for us unless we get out there and create it for ourselves.
• Openness to being wrong must exi...

• Fault is past tense.
• Responsibility is present tense.

Maturity == to become more selective about the f*cks you are willing to give.

• Confronting the reality of our own mortality is important because it obliterates all the crappy, fragile, superficial values in life.
•  Simple optioning for your own values in life, already makes you beautiful, already makes you successful, and already makes you loved...