Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‚I am deaf.‘ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a ‚stalker’s eye,‘ but which, par excellence, is the soldier’s eye.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

I want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

I don’t have many sad days.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Working out anchors my day.

Posture for combat is so vital.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.