running

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
3f8d5bf	Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.	inspirational running	haruki murakami
43ccf31	When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.	fulfilling-your-potential goodbye-cinderella personal-fulfillment personal-limits soaring your-full-potential freedom learning inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life inspirational achievement cinderella living-life fulfillment changing growing flying potential breaking-free self-growth self-discovery limits waiting running	C. JoyBell C.
09b45f2	People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But I don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive than in a fog, and I believe running helps you do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life--and for me, for writing as well. I believe many runners would agree.	meaning running	Haruki Murakami
793d9eb	Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.	inspirational running	Dean Karnazes
2368220	I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.	inspirational running memoir	Haruki Murakami
ac34d89	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's why I've put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I'm no great runner, by any means. I'm at an ordinary - or perhaps more like mediocre - level. But that's 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.	self running	Haruki Murakami
3b9bcf2	I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.	bottle life days remorse running drunk remember forget	Mitch Albom
c72092e	I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.	running old-age	Haruki Murakami
d708ea6	In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .	man life richards richard ben network dystopia stephen survival running king	Stephen King
ae57c07	The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.	running	Ray Bradbury
4083938	He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.	man responsibility stephen running pride manhood	Stephen King
1ffc1c1	Running is still running. It doesn't matter if it's a physical move from one place to another or if it's to within yourself.	running	Katie McGarry
9ed3579	Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight	youth wild girls running	Vladimir Nabokov
278946c	It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.	friends friendship descriptions together friend shadows running childhood	Ray Bradbury
562b7d2	I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.	pushing-the-limits running	Cecelia Ahern
992e377	If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.	risk stand-back-up waves run survive survival running ocean	Terry Tempest Williams
ddf3fa6	As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.	hope dies fingers sparks morning sunshine walk running evening city	Markus Zusak
3505222	It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you you do. But you know what you're really doing? When you flee through the night, or crawl into your little bolt-hole? You know what's really guiding you? Controlling you? Pushing you on? .	crawling genre-conventions the-night hiding running instincts	Mike Carey & Peter Gross
57ee32e	The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the year's last passionate love affair before it grew old and died from the frosty bite of winter.	seasons winter change love passionate trees fall colors fire running	V.C. Andrews
26a636d	If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive.	exercise living alice alive jiggle jogging pant weird sweat random running gross	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
a2b11c2	Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.	running	Jim Butcher
14b2992	These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're running the whole thing.	unless thing intellectual they-re you whole guys running like	J.D. Salinger
dbaa8b8	She shrugged. She glanced over her shoulder. I thought she was talking to me. Then Derek stepped into the doorway. she said to me. She aimed a pointed look his way.	chloe derek maya rescue strangers home running	Kelley Armstrong
0f548aa	Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.	running	Ann Patchett
8182f96	"I'm more of a sprinter than a marathoner when it comes to many aspects of life. For example, when I'm running. Over short distances--up to two yards--I can run faster than cheap panty hose on an itchy porcupine. But over long distances, I'm not so impressive. I try to compensate for my lack of long-distance endurance by having good form. I'm told that my running style is quite majestic. That's probably because I learned to run by watching nature films in which leopards chased frightened zebras. Now when I run, I open my eyes real wide and let my tongue slap the side of my face. If you saw it, you'd be saying, "That's very majestic." And then you'd run like a frightened zebra. That's why my homeowners association voted to ask me to do my jogging with a pillowcase over my head."	zebras running	Scott Adams
bf9170a	Saeed for his part wished he could do something for Nadia, could protect her from what would come, even if he understood, at some level, that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you. He thought she deserved better than this, but he could see no way out, for they had decided not to run, not to play roulette with yet another departure. To flee forever is beyond the capacity of most: at some point even a hunted animal will stop, exhausted, and await its fate, if only for a while.	love running protection	Mohsin Hamid
ba890e2	Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track. For the Greenwood kids--all of us white, marshmallowy, innately unphysical, squinting unfamiliarly in the bright sunshine--it was a shock to the system of an unprecedented order.	exercise humor gym running memoir	Bill Bryson
5336506	Sometimes I wish it has been you.	life love olympics running	Jennifer Weiner
92c6f69	First of all, it's life. You don't win.	life love olympics running	Jennifer Weiner
b61ef8f	It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.	life love olympics running	Jennifer Weiner
46c3414	Running away from uncertainty and confusion but most of all running away from myself. I thought I might become someone else in time, grafted on to something better and stronger. And then I saw that the running away was a running towards. An effort to catch up with my fleet-footed self, living another life in a different way.	escape life fleeing running	Jeanette Winterson
f4c3210	I don't answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think I'm not here and go home.	life love olympics running	Jennifer Weiner
3589d49	Insanlar hayatlarini binbir farkli bicimde yasar, ama ister gizli gizli, taniksiz ve skandalsiz, belki de kendi odasinda ya da sadece dusuncelerinde veya ruyasinda, ister herkesin icinde , torenle, isterse de boyle sacma, utanc verici, canice bicimde olsun, yasaminda bir kez kosmak, her insanin yazgisinda vardir. Gerci bir cok etken rol oynar bunda, ama kendimizden, kendi isteklerimizden ve niyetlerimizden cok kokenlerimize, egitimimize, bize dayatilan yasam tarzina ve cesitli kosullara bagli oldugu da kesindir. Elimizden bir sey gelmez bu konuda.	Ömer-paşa running	Ivo Andrić
40f5e89	I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.	faster fastest good-runner nothing-but-flight lal lal-after-dark lal-alone lalkhamsin-khamsolal sailor-lal swordcane-lal runner fast necessary running	Peter S. Beagle
8cd4ef4	I think it's the whole 'bad boy who's so good but destined to break your heart' fantasy. Which doesn't sound like much of a fantasy when you put the broken heart part in the picture, but it is. It so is.	fantasy heart broken-heart running dangerous	Lisa Renee Jones
4e12e11	Ill lose myself in the pain. It might not make sense. But it works.	running	Lisa Schroeder
6650d66	Your friends will still be your friends, if they're good friends.	life love olympics running	Jennifer Weiner
85ffd9b	I'm saying that it's a big decision. Your first love is important. It's part of your story The story you'll tell yourself, the one you'll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.	life love olympics running	Jennifer Weiner

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

haruki murakami

43ccf31

When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.

fulfilling-your-potential goodbye-cinderella personal-fulfillment personal-limits soaring your-full-potential freedom learning inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life inspirational achievement cinderella living-life fulfillment changing growing flying potential breaking-free self-growth self-discovery limits waiting running

C. JoyBell C.

09b45f2

People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But I don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive than in a fog, and I believe running helps you do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life--and for me, for writing as well. I believe many runners would agree.

meaning running

Haruki Murakami

793d9eb

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

inspirational running

Dean Karnazes

2368220

I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.

inspirational running memoir

Haruki Murakami

ac34d89

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's why I've put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I'm no great runner, by any means. I'm at an ordinary - or perhaps more like mediocre - level. But that's 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.

self running

Haruki Murakami

3b9bcf2

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

bottle life days remorse running drunk remember forget

Mitch Albom

c72092e

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

running old-age

Haruki Murakami

d708ea6

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

man life richards richard ben network dystopia stephen survival running king

Stephen King

ae57c07

The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.

running

Ray Bradbury

4083938

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

man responsibility stephen running pride manhood

Stephen King

1ffc1c1

Running is still running. It doesn't matter if it's a physical move from one place to another or if it's to within yourself.

running

Katie McGarry

9ed3579

Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight

youth wild girls running

Vladimir Nabokov

278946c

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

friends friendship descriptions together friend shadows running childhood

Ray Bradbury

562b7d2

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.

pushing-the-limits running

Cecelia Ahern

992e377

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

risk stand-back-up waves run survive survival running ocean

Terry Tempest Williams

ddf3fa6

As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.

hope dies fingers sparks morning sunshine walk running evening city

Markus Zusak

3505222

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you you do. But you know what you're really doing? When you flee through the night, or crawl into your little bolt-hole? You know what's really guiding you? Controlling you? Pushing you on? .

crawling genre-conventions the-night hiding running instincts

Mike Carey & Peter Gross

57ee32e

The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the year's last passionate love affair before it grew old and died from the frosty bite of winter.

seasons winter change love passionate trees fall colors fire running

V.C. Andrews

26a636d

If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive.

exercise living alice alive jiggle jogging pant weird sweat random running gross

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

a2b11c2

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.

running

Jim Butcher

14b2992

These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're running the whole thing.

unless thing intellectual they-re you whole guys running like

J.D. Salinger

dbaa8b8

She shrugged. She glanced over her shoulder. I thought she was talking to me. Then Derek stepped into the doorway. she said to me. She aimed a pointed look his way.

chloe derek maya rescue strangers home running

Kelley Armstrong

0f548aa

Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.

running

Ann Patchett

8182f96

"I'm more of a sprinter than a marathoner when it comes to many aspects of life. For example, when I'm running. Over short distances--up to two yards--I can run faster than cheap panty hose on an itchy porcupine. But over long distances, I'm not so impressive. I try to compensate for my lack of long-distance endurance by having good form. I'm told that my running style is quite majestic. That's probably because I learned to run by watching nature films in which leopards chased frightened zebras. Now when I run, I open my eyes real wide and let my tongue slap the side of my face. If you saw it, you'd be saying, "That's very majestic." And then you'd run like a frightened zebra. That's why my homeowners association voted to ask me to do my jogging with a pillowcase over my head."

zebras running

Scott Adams

bf9170a

Saeed for his part wished he could do something for Nadia, could protect her from what would come, even if he understood, at some level, that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you. He thought she deserved better than this, but he could see no way out, for they had decided not to run, not to play roulette with yet another departure. To flee forever is beyond the capacity of most: at some point even a hunted animal will stop, exhausted, and await its fate, if only for a while.

love running protection

Mohsin Hamid

ba890e2

Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track. For the Greenwood kids--all of us white, marshmallowy, innately unphysical, squinting unfamiliarly in the bright sunshine--it was a shock to the system of an unprecedented order.

exercise humor gym running memoir

Bill Bryson

5336506

Sometimes I wish it has been you.

life love olympics running

Jennifer Weiner

92c6f69

First of all, it's life. You don't win.

life love olympics running

Jennifer Weiner

b61ef8f

It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.

life love olympics running

Jennifer Weiner

46c3414

Running away from uncertainty and confusion but most of all running away from myself. I thought I might become someone else in time, grafted on to something better and stronger. And then I saw that the running away was a running towards. An effort to catch up with my fleet-footed self, living another life in a different way.

escape life fleeing running

Jeanette Winterson

f4c3210

I don't answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think I'm not here and go home.

life love olympics running

Jennifer Weiner

3589d49

Insanlar hayatlarini binbir farkli bicimde yasar, ama ister gizli gizli, taniksiz ve skandalsiz, belki de kendi odasinda ya da sadece dusuncelerinde veya ruyasinda, ister herkesin icinde , torenle, isterse de boyle sacma, utanc verici, canice bicimde olsun, yasaminda bir kez kosmak, her insanin yazgisinda vardir. Gerci bir cok etken rol oynar bunda, ama kendimizden, kendi isteklerimizden ve niyetlerimizden cok kokenlerimize, egitimimize, bize dayatilan yasam tarzina ve cesitli kosullara bagli oldugu da kesindir. Elimizden bir sey gelmez bu konuda.

Ömer-paşa running

Ivo Andrić

40f5e89

I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.

faster fastest good-runner nothing-but-flight lal lal-after-dark lal-alone lalkhamsin-khamsolal sailor-lal swordcane-lal runner fast necessary running

Peter S. Beagle

8cd4ef4

I think it's the whole 'bad boy who's so good but destined to break your heart' fantasy. Which doesn't sound like much of a fantasy when you put the broken heart part in the picture, but it is. It so is.

fantasy heart broken-heart running dangerous

Lisa Renee Jones

4e12e11

Ill lose myself in the pain. It might not make sense. But it works.

running

Lisa Schroeder

6650d66

Your friends will still be your friends, if they're good friends.

life love olympics running

Jennifer Weiner

85ffd9b

I'm saying that it's a big decision. Your first love is important. It's part of your story The story you'll tell yourself, the one you'll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.

life love olympics running

Jennifer Weiner