The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.Ryan Holiday
There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.Ryan Holiday
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.Ryan Holiday
We love our heroes and prefer to see them prevail against the odds.Ryan Holiday
Problems are rarely as bad as we think—or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.Ryan Holiday
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.Ryan Holiday
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.Ryan Holiday
To argue, to complain, or worse, to just give up, these are choices. Choices that more often than not, do nothing to get us across the finish line.Ryan Holiday
Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been.Ryan Holiday
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.Ryan Holiday