Mike Yanek

The Book of Manly Quotes Mike Yanek

How this book came to be?I've always been fascinated by quotes. You can say I'm a sucker for a good quote. I just can't help myself. I know some people think inspirational quotes are cheesy or stupid, but they have helped me a lot in difficult and dark times. When I was 23, I decided to start writing down, in a notepad, all the good quotes I heard or read. There were, however, some conditions: I could only write down a quote if it was something my own life had taught me, I had come to that conclusion through my own experiences or I had heard, or read about, someone else's experiences and they resonated strongly with my own. The original idea was (and still is) to, hopefully, one day pass this notepad onto my son or another young male family member. I purposefully focused on manly quotes because young men are experiencing a masculine identity crisis the likes of which we have never seen before. Sometimes a few inspiring words and ideas can be the spark of a new beginning. So, mid-2017, I thought why not select 200 of the quotes from that notepad and create a book for people to read. So, a few months later, here we are. I hope you enjoy this book and I'm looking forward to your responses. I hope that this book will help and inspire you, just like it will help and inspire my future son one day!