Sunday, October 25, 2009

Running related and not running related

  • “So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.” 
    ― George Mallory
  • "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. " Edward Abbey
  • "I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma." --- The Wizard of Oz 
  • "Today, the most common form of physical ABUSE is DISUSE." Stephen Seiler
  • "Too much of a good thing, is wonderful." Mae West
  • My friends hate to run. I love them dearly, but if any of them wanted to invade the euphoric joy I get from a run alone, I’d have to get new friends. (John M. Bernhisel)
  • "It is that little bit of insanity that keeps us all sane." Kevin Cunningham
  • "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have" Thomas Jefferson
  • "Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop" --Lewis Carroll
  • "Work to become, not to acquire."-- Confucius
  • “Always do what you are afraid to do.” -- George Bernard Shaw
  • A jogger runs to stay healthy. A runner stays healthy to run.
  • We probably wouldn't worry so much what people think about us if we
    realized how seldom they actually do. (Mark Twain )
  • Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals. 
  • It is never too late to become what you might have been.
  • There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. 
  • Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
  • The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time
  • You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it is never going to hurt.
  • What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
  • We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
  • I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
  • Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
  • Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
  • Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
  • A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
  • CONFIDENCE-It's the feeling you have before you fully understand the
    situation. 
  • "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." Oscar Wild