What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. — THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Ryan Holiday

The best journals aren’t for the reader. They are for the writer. To slow the mind down. To wage peace with oneself.

I was trapped so terribly inside my own head that I was a prisoner to my own thoughts.

All great victories, be they in politics, business, art, or seduction, involved resolving vexing problems with a potent cocktail of creativity, focus, and daring. When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go — carving you a path. “The Things which hurt,” Benjamin Franklin wrote, “instruct.