..there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and.. undemanding..maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other. Christopher McDougall
The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and...
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Haruki Murakami
People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than...
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Dean Karnazes
Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering me, or to detach and think of nothing at all.
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Jeff Horowitz
When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked.
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Ray Bradbury
Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Christopher McDougall
Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~ Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on...
If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.
Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.
Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!
