The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)

you avoid choosing anything at all. You aim to keep your options open as long as possible. You avoid commitment.

People, high on a sense of false superiority, fall into inaction and lethargy for fear of trying something worthwhile and failing at it.

The pampering of the modern mind has resulted in a population that feels deserving of something without earning that something, a population that feels they have a right to something without sacrificing for it. People declare themselves experts, entrepreneurs, inventors, innovators, mavericks, and coaches without any real-life experience. And they

For a relationship to be healthy, both people must be willing and able to both say no and hear no.

To value X, we must reject non-X.

Basically, the more options we’re given, the less satisfied we become with whatever we choose,

Without conflict, there can be no trust.

We are so materially well off, yet so psychologically tormented in so many low-level and shallow ways.

these kids are absolutely out of their fucking minds. And they just killed themselves to prove it!