Tom Hiddleston Quotes

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

I go for a 20-minute jog every day. I find I am much happier when I exercise. Running helps me debrief and work out my plan for the day.

There are times when I feel lazy and just want to stay in bed all day, but I know that working out is the best way to get those endorphins going, which will make me feel better emotionally and physically.

I think the big things for me are trying to keep running and staying active, but not forcing to do one hour or five miles but really going out and doing it until you feel good.

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

One of my favorite things to do is go running early in the morning when everyone in my house is still sleeping. I throw on my iPod, and it's, like, my time.

Whenever I wake up, I'm up. I don't lie there like an idiot. I get up, run up a hill, get some exercise, and have some time with my thoughts.

Working out anchors my day.

My family and friends and career are very important to me, but running allows me to be a better friend, a better family member, and makes me better at my career.

There are many times I don't feel like going to work out, but I know if I do, I'll feel better.

What I really want is to keep myself active.

It's very important every day that I get up and breathe, and I can say the word 'Slipknot,' and I still have friends that I do it with.

Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not letting myself get too hungry, not letting myself get too cold (I'm a person who is always cold), made a big difference. Partly because I felt happier, partly because feeling physically comfortable makes it easier to keep other difficult happiness-boosting resolutions like biting my tongue.

You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good.

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

I don't know anyone who couldn't use a little boost in their energy and self-control.

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

I like to dance around the house when I'm getting ready. It gets my day going.

I just have to express myself somehow, either through singing, dance or fitness. You get sick of it; you have days where you think you don't want to do it, but generally after I've done something, I feel better. That's why I do the exercise: to earn my bar of chocolate and cappuccino.