Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Tasya Lacy: Running
“I realize that I have been blessed with health and strength to overcome not only the miles on the road, but also to overcome the hard times in life when you want to throw in the towel. When I cross the line now, it is a celebration of the fact that I didn’t quit.”…
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Deena Kastor: Running
The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. Deena Kastor, U.S. Olympian
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Peter Sagal: Running
“We runners talk about having fun but I don’t think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care, we exercise caution, we watch our diets and monitor our pace. We are ascetics who talk, unconvincingly, of the bracing enjoyment of self-abuse.” —Peter Sagal.
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Carrie Parker: Running
On every run, I discover the strength that I did not know I had. Some days it is my salvation! Carrie Parker, technical analyst
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Grantland Rice: The road
“Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. ” Grantland Rice
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Maxim Gorky: A good man and a bad one
“A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.” —Maxim Gorky.
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Priscilla Welch: Running
“Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.” —Priscilla Welch, retired British marathoner.
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Selene Yeager: Running
“Running has the power to change your life. It will make you fitter, healthier, even happier.” —Selene Yeager, “Let’s Get Started,” May 2010 issue of Runner’s World.
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Kristin Armstrong: Running and growing older
“As I get older I see that running has changed for me. What used to be about burning calories is now more about burning up what is false. Lies I used to tell myself about who I was and what I could do, friendships that cannot withstand hills or miles, the approval I no longer…
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Lorraine Moller: Running
For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I’m far more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. It’s that interest and exploration that make running fun for me. It’s easy to become outcome-focused; for me the unfoldment of self is what is meaningful in running and outlasts any medals. Lorraine Moller,…
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Jeff Mastro: Running
At first I was running just to lose weight, and then after about six months when I was increasing the distance of my long runs, I was intrigued and fascinated how the human body can go from barely able to run a mile to being able to run eight miles. Jeff Mastro, runner and restaurant…
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Kahlil Gibran: Ingratitude
“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” —Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931).
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Martin Luther King: Non-violence
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” —Martin Luther King.
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George Lorimer: Running
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. George Lorimer, journalist
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Adam Goucher: Running
You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done. Adam Goucher
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Robert de Castella: Running
Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results. Robert de Castella, Australian marathon runner
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Bob Schwartz: Running
“Take advantage of bad running days and take advantage of good running days. Take advantage of running.” —Bob Schwartz, Running Laughs blog.
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Colby Phillips: Running
I love the feeling you get after a workout. You know that you’ve done something great for yourself, with a little effort. There’s no cost, but the payoff—feeling good about the way I look—is huge. Colby Phillips, U.S. Army Officer
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Dean Karnazes: Running
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived. Dean Karnazes, ultrarunner
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Peter Magill: Running
No one is born a perfect runner. And none of us will become one. But through incremental steps, we can become better runners. And that’s the beauty of our sport: There are no shortcuts, nothing is given to us; we earn every mile, and we earn every result. Peter Magill, 2010 USA Masters 5K champion…
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Bernard Iddings Bell: To love
“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least…
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Bruce Lee: Be water, my friend
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” —Bruce Lee http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/74961332
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Douglas d'Adabie: Running
Running can open so many doors; improved health, new social groups, a sense of accomplishment, the list goes on. What I have found is that the key to success is consistency. Just get out there and run, and in no time you will be doing things that you never thought possible. Douglas d’Adabie, Runner’s World…
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Jeff Galloway: Running
“Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.” —Jeff Galloway, U.S. Olympian, Runner’s World columnist, and author.
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Valerie DiMambro: You got this
I don’t know if running changed my life or if I changed my life for running, but who cares really? My feet keep moving, my arms keep pumping, and my mantra keeps rolling, ‘Be patient. You got this.’ Valerie DiMambro, RW Challenger
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Theodore Roosevelt: Who counts?
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strongman stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs…
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Oscar Wilde: Do not ask
“The sick do not ask if the hand that smooths their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.” —Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900).
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Kara Goucher: Running
Running has always been a relief and a sanctuary—something that makes me feel good, both physically and mentally. For me it’s not so much about the health benefits. Those are great, but I believe that the best thing about running is the joy it brings to life. Kara Goucher Related articles First Day of November…
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Bill Budge: Computers and programming
“It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers. ” Bill Budge
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Hal Higdon: Running
“If you’re a beginning runner and just finished your first road race, you will continue to improve if you do nothing else but train consistently.” —Hal Higdon, author and contributing editor for Runner’s World.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Space invasion
“Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone. ” —Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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Laurence Sterne: Ten jokes
“For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. ” Laurence Sterne Related articles Famous Irish Quotes(irelandisbeautiful.com)
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Charles Caleb Colton: Mistakes
“The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. ” —Charles Caleb Colton
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Jan Brett: Running
“Ideas usually come after I’ve run 10 miles. I like to ask myself a question and let my unconscious answer it.” —Jan Brett, author and illustrator of children’s books.
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James Thurber: Light
There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. –James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)
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Dave Blood: Perception
“You can’t control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. ” —Dave Blood
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Kabir: Scourers
“Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.” ― Kabir
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Blaise Pascal: The long and short of it
“I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” —Blaise Pascal.
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St. François de Sales: Colored devotion
“We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to be leading a very devout life, so long as he fasts rigorously, although the while his heart is full of bitterness;–and while he will not moisten his lips with wine, perhaps not even…
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William Hurt: Heroes and libraries
“Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. ” —William Hurt
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Robert Heller: Gut feeling
“Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough. ” Robert Heller
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Henry Ward Beecher: Friendly cemetery
“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. ” —Henry Ward Beecher
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Mark Twain: Enemy and friend
“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you” —Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910).
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Richard Bach: Family
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. ”Richard Bach
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Mohsen Makhmalba: Pretense and me
“I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me. ” —Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
