Ryan Gosling Quotes

I needed a break... from myself.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

I just want to play until I think I don't feel good - and if I can still do it. If I can't do it, I don't think I'll keep going once I don't feel I'm playing the way I want to.

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

I try to practice with my life.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.