Wise as Fu*k Quotes

“When the responsibility for the quality of your life lies with anyone but you, you become the victim.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“You might do things with the notion that you’re helping others for the sake of helping them, but what if that’s yet another strategy of yours to “get” something, and the only reason it’s so draining is because it never quite gets you the thing you’re really after?”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“Enlightenment rule no. 10087: Stop asking people what you should do; engage your own brain, read, discover, and plot your path. For what it’s worth, your hunger for advice is really about your desire to tell others about your predicament, how you’ve handled it, and to get their agreement that you’re doing the “right thing.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“You don’t ask for that raise because you fear you might not get it. You don’t ask that person out because you’re afraid they’ll say no. You don’t start a business or write that book or apply to that college or even go to the gym because . . . what’s the fucking point, right? I mean, you’ll only fail again, won’t you?”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“And thus, rather than some newfound ability to be who you want to be, you actually become more worried and more anxious with what you are not. And so the cycle goes. You feel anxiety or resignation over your weight or your appearance, your career or finances, your character flaws and failings. The worry that everyone is getting ahead while you’re standing still. The phobia of being left behind.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“Think about yourself for a moment here (like you need an invitation for such a thing), when someone has something you don’t and you immediately start to ponder, What about me? We see someone’s relationship and compare our state of bliss—or who’s keeping us from it. Then there are those times when we see someone else’s expression, their freedom to be, as an infringement on our own. We look out and look in, out and in, comparing and contrasting over and over, caught in a trap of not enough/never enough.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“Earn money, make friends, find a partner, buy a house, go on vacations, complain, have fun, complain, have more fun, complain again, pay the bills, try to get ahead, pursue a dream or two, more vacations, pay more bills, more house, more car, try to get along with my family—you get the picture. I mean, it’s what everyone else was doing, so why not? It’s probably a lot like yours too.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“In most professions, you don’t get paid less if you do your job while you’re in some negative mood as long as you do your job. But you do get paid less (read: nothing) if you don’t do the work while you’re floating on cloud nine. That’s because it’s the action that matters, not how you feel. Kinda brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “get your act together” now, doesn’t it?”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“begin to build a life centered around increasing and changing your actions, not shifting emotions.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“New feelings without action change nothing. As an added bonus, changing our actions even changes how we feel along the way too.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“Lasting, powerful love is consciously choosing to love another for ALL that they are, not just the good bits that we approve of or find most agreeable.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“You can never allow yourself to settle for feeling better about a life that doesn’t work. That’s called stagnation and, as clichéd as it might sound, you actually are better than that.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“Everyone wants a simple answer; everyone wants to be told how to do success or dieting or love, because at some level they just don’t want to think beyond the limits of their own confusion or apathy or the story they’ve created about themselves.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“FUNDAMENTAL #5 “The secret to love, is to love who they are.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“It’s the difference between I don’t think I can do this, referring to a particular task or situation, and I can’t do anything, as if you’re worthless or the world is out to get you.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“Because it’s not what you’re actually doing that you fear, it’s something else. It’s the significance, the weight, or as Sartre would say, the meaning that you’ve attached to that action or event.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“The reason you keep running into the same problems in life is because you are always engaging with them from the same angle. You have become so obsessed with trying to fix the problems from this particular view, you have forgotten your ninja power—you can shift your angle on it. You can stand in a new place and look out and handle life from there.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“when those feelings of shame or panic or guilt shut you down or you’re gripped by the all-consuming fear of the unknown.”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life