626 Quotes by Ryan Holiday

Knowledge – self-knowledge in particular – is freedom.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

We are one big collective organism engaged in one endless project together. We are one.

Most of us would be seized with fear if our bodies went numb, and would do everything possible to avoid it, yet we take no interest at all in the numbing of our souls. – EPICTETUS.

Snark encourages the fakeness and stupidity it is supposedly trying to rail against.

There’s no time off. There aren’t even weekends. We are always preparing for what life might throw at us – and when it does, we’re ready and don’t stop until we’ve handled it.

Face the symptoms. Cure the disease. Ego makes it so hard – it’s easier to delay, to double down, to deliberately avoid seeing the changes we need to make in our lives. But change begins by hearing the criticism and the words of the people around you. Even if those words are mean spirited, angry, or hurtful. It means weighing them, discarding the ones that don’t matter, and reflecting on the ones that do.

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.

Without an accurate accounting of our own abilities compared to others, what we have is not confidence but delusion. How are we supposed to reach, motivate, or lead other people if we can’t relate to their needs – because we’ve lost touch with our own?