

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“袥褞斜芯胁 胁邪褉褌邪 胁褋褜芯谐芯 -
胁邪褉褌邪 斜芯谢褞 褌胁芯谐芯,
胁邪褉褌邪 褌胁芯褩褏 褉芯蟹谢褍泻,
胁邪褉褌邪 胁褨写褉邪蟹懈 泄 屑褍泻,
锌褋褟褔芯谐芯 蟹谢芯谐芯 胁懈褌褌褟,
褕邪谢械薪褋褌胁邪 褌邪 屑懈谢芯褋械褉写褜.
袙邪褉褌邪 薪邪胁褨褌褜 卸懈褌褌褟.
袧械 泻邪卸褍褔懈 胁卸械 锌褉芯 褋屑械褉褌褜.”
― 袛懈薪邪屑芯 啸邪褉泻褨胁
胁邪褉褌邪 斜芯谢褞 褌胁芯谐芯,
胁邪褉褌邪 褌胁芯褩褏 褉芯蟹谢褍泻,
胁邪褉褌邪 胁褨写褉邪蟹懈 泄 屑褍泻,
锌褋褟褔芯谐芯 蟹谢芯谐芯 胁懈褌褌褟,
褕邪谢械薪褋褌胁邪 褌邪 屑懈谢芯褋械褉写褜.
袙邪褉褌邪 薪邪胁褨褌褜 卸懈褌褌褟.
袧械 泻邪卸褍褔懈 胁卸械 锌褉芯 褋屑械褉褌褜.”
― 袛懈薪邪屑芯 啸邪褉泻褨胁

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
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“Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love. If a woman tells me: I love you because you're intelligent, because you're decent, because you buy me gifts, because you don't chase women, because you do the dishes, then I'm disappointed; such love seems a rather self-interested business. How much finer it is to hear: I'm crazy about you even though you're neither intelligent nor decent, even though you're a liar, an egotist, a bastard.”
― Slowness
― Slowness

“For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that鈥檚 why I鈥檝e put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I鈥檓 no great runner, by any means. I鈥檓 at an ordinary 鈥 or perhaps more like mediocre 鈥 level. But that鈥檚 not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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