“If you can’t make up your mind, ‘What the hell’ is usually the right answer.” …ellen.reid.smith
“The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy, I mean that if you are happy you will be good.” …Bertrand.Russell
“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.” …Goethe
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” …Anatole France
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. …Rudyard Kipling
“Come what may, I want to run.”
2 Samuel 18:23
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. …Mark Twain
People ask why I run. I say, “If you have to ask, you will never understand.” It is something only those select few know. Those who put themselves through pain, but know, deep down, how good it really feels. –Erin Leonard
“Happiness isn’t a goal, it’s a by-product.”
…Eleanor.Roosevelt
“In my own defense, I don’t believe I was born this complicated…” [yonder.mountain.string.band]
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too.
…Joseph Storey
“…in Wildness is the preservation of the World.” [Henry.David.Thoreau]
…Mahatma Gandhi
…Sidney Lovett
[Carl.Sandburg]
[Mark Twain]
We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.
…Tobias Wolff
I have observed something else in this world of ours. The fastest runner doesn’t always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn’t always win the battle. The wise are often poor, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don’t always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being at the right place at the right time.
-Ecclesiastes 9:11-
For I have known them all already, know them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons; I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...T.S. Eliot]
Even the periods of solitary miles allow time to connect with the inner being through the pain of the body. Essentially, running is simple, running is primal and running is fun.
…John Anderson, Rock/Creek Race Team
Look to this day!
For it is life,
The very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the veritites
And realities of your existence;
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision;
But today well-lived
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day!
Such is the Salutation to the Dawn.
-Kalidasa
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.” …Natalie Goldberg
The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. …David Hare
“Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you’re good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe… combat some of the ugliness in the world.” — Goldie Hawn
By: David Dempster on November 7, 2008
at 6:45 pm
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
By: AD on November 8, 2008
at 3:32 pm
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” -Eric Hoffer
By: Dado on February 22, 2009
at 8:21 pm