Daily Inspiration Quote by Joan Van Ark

Running gets framed here less as fitness and more as self-management: a low-tech ritual for staying sane in a loud world. Coming from Joan Van Ark, an actress whose career was built in the high-visibility pressure cooker of TV and theater, the line reads like a practical backstage note - not a manifesto. The key move is how it treats stress and mental clutter as physical problems with a physical solution. You do not argue with anxiety; you outpace it.

The phrasing is deliberately plain, almost homespun. "Great way" avoids the self-help absolutism of "the best way", and that restraint makes it feel earned. It implies trial and error: she has tried things, this one works, take it or leave it. "Relieve" is also telling. Stress is not defeated or cured; it is managed, reduced to something you can carry lighter. For a working actor, that is a realistic promise. The job does not stop being stressful, but you can change how it lands in your body.

"Clear the mind" is the emotional payoff, and it quietly flips the usual script. We often treat mental clarity as something achieved by thinking harder, optimizing, strategizing. Running suggests the opposite: clarity arrives when language and rumination finally run out of oxygen. In an era where burnout is practically a résumé line, the quote sells an old idea in a modern register: agency. You cannot control the call sheet, the critics, the industry; you can control the next mile.