Modern Human's Handbook Quotes

“I think if we were to truly create a utopian society, the first thing we would do to tear it down, just to have a purpose.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“People, don’t commit suicide because they’re weak. They commit suicide because they have no reason to be strong.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“For some reason, there is this façade that life should be full of happiness and without its suffering. Which, actually makes us suffer even more. Because when we get sad or something bad happens, we do not only feel bad about the thing itself but we also feel bad because our life is not the way it is supposed to be. Not realizing suffering and sadness is just a part of life and they are inevitable.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“Unless you learn your lesson, it will keep hurting. Not only it will never stop, it will also keep increasing the amount, so you won’t get used to it.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“If I’m happy because of something -even if that thing persists- my happiness in time vanishes. But if I regret something or become sad about something that sadness or regret can follow me for many years, maybe even to my deathbed.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“Nothing can affect a person’s mind if he chooses not to be affected by it.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“Time to time you will fail some of your responsibilities. Sometimes they can crush you. In those difficult times, you have to remind yourself that it is better for everybody around you and the world to have a person who is truly trying but failing than doing nothing at all.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“You are powerful because even there is all the evil in this world you can choose to be a good person.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“We don’t look at ourselves to see if we are inadequate, we don’t ask ourselves if we are enjoying life. What we do instead is we look at other people and what they do then decide if our life is worth living.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“You are not powerful because you can change the world. You are powerful because you have the ability to withstand it.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“If you are lonely, if you have got nobody around you, then turn your loneliness into something. That something should be worth to your loneliness.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“It is a bad thing to think positively. It makes us weaker by preparing us for the best scenario. I think what we need to know is, no matter how terrible the situation is or we are strong enough to withstand it.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“The thing is writing is torturing me every second while I’m writing. But not writing is torturing every second when I’m not writing. If you are looking for any meaning in life it is this; being tortured for the right reason. To truly live is that loving being tortured by it.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“Being yourself is hard and often disappointing.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“I think one of the things you need to realize, is that the things that you think you need in life are not, the things you, as a person need, they are the things that other people tell you that you need.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“Let’s say -for the sake of the argument-, whatever you do, doesn’t matter in the great scheme of things. But the thing is we don’t live in the great scheme of things. We live only in a part of it. So, even if it doesn’t matter in the great scheme of things, it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t matter.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“Before I continue, I just want to write about living every day like your last one. I don’t agree with it at all. You will die one day but you will live thousands of days. So, living your thousands of days according to just one, seems like a bad idea to me.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“If even in my death I have the potential of making everything worse then maybe I have some potential to make things better.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“I was so afraid of being sad, I never gave myself any chance to be happy”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“What makes a nail, nail, its purpose. What makes us who we are is our purpose.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“What I think is that there is no way a life should be and there is only one way a life is and it is the way it is.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“We do things, we never thought we would, we live things we never thought we would, we think things we never thought we would. We barely know ourselves.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“We are all confused, dumbfounded by life.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“We actually have a word for people who loves them no matter what. We call them narcissist.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“At the age of 80 in your deathbed maybe you can tell yourself; My life was terrible, I suffered all time. Nobody is going to remember me in the next 100 years. But I fixed that small thing, so, maybe my existence was not a complete waste.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“Why are we so easily take credit for bad things our fellow humans did yet so hard to take credit for everything good they did?”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“If you worry because bad things might happen, you suffer from the things that are yet to happen. If they don’t happen, it means you suffered for nothing and if they do happen, it means you suffered for nothing again”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“When something happens and it causes us pain, the pain is there to teach us a lesson. It is not so that we feel pain for the sake of pain.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“By wanting the things that you don’t have, in order to be happy, you are not trying to end the suffering you have, you are simply trying to rationalize it. When you have those things, you will realize your suffering did not end. Only the reasons for it have changed.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“Therefore, even if you were to die today, it wouldn’t matter what happens after that because you wouldn’t be experiencing it.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook