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Joe Henderson: Your toughest opponent
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head. Joe Henderson, running coach and author Related articles TP’s Quote of the Day (takboprintipe.wordpress.com)
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Joe Henderson: Being tough
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head. Joe Henderson, running coach and author Related articles Usain Bolt Outruns Human Nature [Usain Bolt] (deadspin.com)
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Milan Kundera: Vertigo
“Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” —Milan Kundera…
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Man and woman
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. ” —Alexander Walker Related articles Men From Mars, Women From Venus (bajan.wordpress.com)
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Windows versus mirrors
“I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you. ” —Bill Withers
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Rene Descartes: Candles in the wind
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? ” —Rene Descartes. Related articles Rene Descartes on the Dependency of Man and the Independency of God (jdylanparker.wordpress.com) Descartes Knew More Than He Thought (wmbriggs.com) Descartes Got It Wrong (intermittentlyknownlife.wordpress.com)
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Ready?
“People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it. ” Judith Light Related articles Judith Light Is Holly’s Intimidating Mother On ‘The Exes’ (huffingtonpost.com) ‘The Exes’: Judith Light guests as Kristen Johnston’s mother! – FIRST LOOK (insidetv.ew.com)
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Winning
Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It’s only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up. Amby Burfoot, Editor-at-Large, Runner’s…
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Carl Jung: No recipe for living
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” —Carl Jung. Related articles Carl Gustav Jung – The World Within (dphilosophy.wordpress.com) Carl Jung’s Five Key Elements to Happiness. (happiness-project.com) Carl Jung’s Five Key Elements to Happiness (psychcentral.com)
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Poppycock
“I’m not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock.” —Sam James Ervin Jr. Related articles It’s Political Poppycock (andrawatkins.com) Poppycock and Pinwheels (traumatotreasure.wordpress.com)
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Michel de Montaigne: 'cos it was me, 'im meself
“If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. ” —Michel de Montaigne. Related articles With Meself (beareroflight54448.wordpress.com) Quote #28 (ilikethesequotes.wordpress.com) Moments of Madness (notlostjustweird.com) Profile on: Michel de Montaigne, writer and the father of Modern…
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Lewis Carroll: Wings
The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. Of why the ocean is burning hot, and whether pigs have wings. —Lewis Carroll Related articles The Walrus and the Carpenter (shesmyhalfavocado.wordpress.com) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (arlasworld.wordpress.com) Handwritten pages from…
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