Ryan Holiday Quotes

Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.

I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

My psychologist told me I have to control my emotions and be more positive. She's taught me to stop the negative thoughts during the matches with some exercises. That's helped me make an improvement.

I get depressed pretty easily but have found the best way to combat it is to surround yourself with people you can talk openly with about it.

Like many artists, I have issues with anxiety and depression, so I try to live in a way that supports my mental health.

There's nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated.

I will continue going to the psychologist. It helps me to manage the pressure and emotions.

I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

I don't torture myself.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.