The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Quotes

“A longo prazo, terminar uma maratona nos deixa mais felizes do que comer um bolo de chocolate. Criar um filho nos deixa mais felizes do que ganhar uma partida de videogame. Abrir uma pequena empresa com amigos e vencer dificuldades financeiras nos deixa mais felizes do que comprar um computador novo. São atividades estressantes, árduas e muitas vezes desagradáveis, além de trazer consigo inúmeros problemas, mas, ao mesmo tempo, são as que nos proporcionam os momentos mais marcantes e constituem nossas maiores alegrias. Atividades como essas envolvem dor, cansaço, raiva e até desespero — mas, depois de concluídas, olhamos para trás emocionados. É o que contaremos aos nossos netos. É como Freud disse: “Um dia, quando olhar para trás, os anos de luta lhe parecerão os mais bonitos.” Isso explica por que não devemos pautar nossa existência em valores escrotos — prazer, sucesso material, estar sempre certo e otimismo implacável. Alguns dos melhores momentos da vida não são prazerosos, não são grandiosos, não são reconhecidos e não são positivos.”
― Mark Manson, A sutil arte de ligar o f*da-se: Uma estratégia inusitada para uma vida melhor

“See: it’s a never-ending upward spiral. And if you think at any point you’re allowed to stop climbing, I’m afraid you’re missing the point. Because the joy is in the climb itself.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“What pain do you want to sustain?” The path to happiness is a path full of shitheaps and shame.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Успех может прийти лишь тогда, когда человек поймет: до величия ему далеко, результаты — скромные и посредственные. И есть куда расти.”
― Mark Manson, Тонкое искусство пофигизма: Парадоксальный способ жить счастливо (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life)

“Зачастую осознание лишь этого факта — что в серьезности и болезненности ваших проблем нет ничего особенного — становится первым и важнейшим шагом к их решению.”
― Mark Manson, Тонкое искусство пофигизма: Парадоксальный способ жить счастливо (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life)

“Практическое просветление — это умение смириться с тем, что страдание неизбежно: что бы вы ни делали, жизнь будет состоять из неудач и утрат, сожалений и смертей. И когда вы смиритесь со всем дерьмом, которым забрасывает вас жизнь (поверьте, она забросает вас килотоннами дерьма), вы на свой умеренно-духовный лад станете непобедимым. В конце концов, единственный способ победить страдание — научиться выносить его.”
― Mark Manson, Тонкое искусство пофигизма: Парадоксальный способ жить счастливо (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life)

“стремление к более позитивному опыту — само по себе негативный опыт. И, как ни парадоксально, принятие негативного опыта — позитивный опыт.”
― Mark Manson, Тонкое искусство пофигизма: Парадоксальный способ жить счастливо (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life)

“The benefits of the Internet and social media are unquestionably fantastic. In many ways, this is the best time in history to be alive. But perhaps these technologies are having some unintended social side effects. Perhaps these same technologies that have liberated and educated so many are simultaneously enabling people’s sense of entitlement more than ever before.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“we all must give a fuck about something, in order to value something. And to value something, we must reject what is not that something. To value X, we must reject non-X. That rejection is an inherent and necessary part of maintaining our values, and therefore our identity.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“the problem is that giving too many fucks is bad for your mental health.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“For individuals to feel justified in doing horrible things to other people, they must feel an unwavering certainty in their own righteousness, in their own beliefs and deservedness.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“An obsession and overinvestment in emotion fails us for the simple reason that emotions never last. Whatever makes us happy today will no longer make us happy tomorrow, because our biology always needs something more. A fixation on happiness inevitably amounts to a never-ending pursuit of “something else”—a new house, a new relationship, another child, another pay raise. And despite all of our sweat and strain, we end up feeling eerily similar to how we started: inadequate.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“As Freud once said, “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” This is why these values—pleasure, material success, always being right, staying positive—are poor ideals for a person’s life. Some of the greatest moments of one’s life are not pleasant, not successful, not known, and not positive. The point is to nail down some good values and metrics, and pleasure and success will naturally emerge as a result. These things are side effects of good values. By themselves, they are empty highs.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Much as the pain of touching a hot stove teaches you not to touch it again, the sadness of being alone teaches you not to do the things that made you feel so alone again. Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Assim como ficamos horrorizados ao imaginar como as pessoas viviam quinhentos anos atrás, imagino que daqui a quinhentos anos muitos rirão de nós e das certezas que temos hoje. Vão rir por deixarmos o dinheiro e o emprego definirem nossa vida; vão rir do nosso medo de demonstrar apreço pelas pessoas que mais importam enquanto endeusamos figuras públicas que nada merecem; vão rir dos nossos rituais e superstições, das nossas preocupações e nossas guerras. Ficarão perplexas com nossa crueldade. Estudarão nossa arte e debaterão nossa história. Entenderão verdades sobre nós que ainda não enxergamos. Essas pessoas do futuro também estarão erradas, mas só um pouco menos do que estamos hoje.”
― Mark Manson, A sutil arte de ligar o f*da-se: Uma estratégia inusitada para uma vida melhor

“It’s what the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as “the backwards law”—the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“We should approach the news and media with a healthy dose of skepticism and avoid painting those who disagree with us with a broad brush.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“The biggest problem with victimhood chic is that it sucks attention away from actual victims. It’s like the boy who cried wolf.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“this may be the first time in human history that every single demographic group has felt unfairly victimized simultaneously. And they’re all riding the highs of the moral indignation that comes along with it.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Stress-related health issues, anxiety disorders, and cases of depression have skyrocketed over the past thirty years, despite the fact that everyone has a flat-screen TV and can have their groceries delivered. Our crisis is no longer material; it’s existential, it’s spiritual. We have so much fucking stuff and so many opportunities that we don’t even know what to give a fuck about anymore.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice—whatever makes us feel good will also inevitably make us feel bad. What we gain is also what we lose. What creates our positive experiences will define our negative experiences.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“And let’s be honest here. If you were to add up all of the people who have some psychiatric disorder, struggle with depression or suicidal thoughts, have been subjected to neglect or abuse, have dealt with tragedy or the death of a loved one, and have survived serious health issues, accidents, or trauma—if you were to round up all of those people and put them in the room, well, you’d probably have to round up everyone, because nobody makes it through life without collecting a few scars on the way out.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Don’t hope for a life without problems,” the panda said. “There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.” And with that, he set his glass down, adjusted his sombrero, and sauntered off into the sunset.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“We can be truly successful only at something we´re willing to fail at.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so not because they believe they’re exceptional. On the contrary, they become amazing because they’re obsessed with improvement. And that obsession with improvement stems from an unerring belief that they are, in fact, not that great at all. It’s anti-entitlement. People who become great at something become great because they understand that they’re not already great—they are mediocre, they are average—and that they could be so much better. All of this “every person can be extraordinary and achieve greatness” stuff is basically just jerking off your ego. It’s a message that tastes good going down, but in reality is nothing more than empty calories that make you emotionally fat and bloated, the proverbial Big Mac for your heart and your brain.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Thirty years went by like this, most of it a meaningless blur of alcohol, drugs, gambling, and prostitutes. Then, when Bukowski was fifty, after a lifetime of failure and self-loathing, an editor at a small independent publishing house took a strange interest in him. The editor couldn’t offer Bukowski much money or much promise of sales. But he had a weird”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Work expands so as to fill up the time available for its completion”
― Mark manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

“The more freedom we’re given to express ourselves, the more we want to be free of having to deal with anyone who may disagree with us or upset us. The more exposed we are to opposing viewpoints, the more we seem to get upset that those other viewpoints exist. The easier and more problem-free our lives become, the more we seem to feel entitled for them to get even better.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Pain, in all of its forms, is our body’s most effective means of spurring action.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life