Ryan Holiday Quotes

I learned that working out gives me a space to get clear. It's not just about the body. It gives me space to process things and get clear in my mind about decisions and things I want to do.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I've been a runner my whole life.

I'm a work in progress. I've started doing spin classes, which always clears my head.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.

My favorite part of running is the thinking time.

Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.

I think I have some of my clearest thoughts when I'm out running.

I run hills anytime I really have to think.

You live day by day. You can't build your life.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

Scientology helps you lose your insanities. One of the keys is, they say, 'You're in charge of your life, buster. You're responsible for any condition you're in.' If I look at it that way, it helps.

I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.

The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

Yoga changed my life. Hopefully, it will do that for others.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.