Robert Andrew Powell > Quotes

“Don’t quit. The point is not that it happened but how you deal with it. Keep running.”
― Robert Andrew Powell, Running Away

“To change one’s life: start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.”
― Robert Andrew Powell, Running Away

“It feels so good to stop, it’s almost worth it to run. Almost.”
― Robert Andrew Powell, Running Away

“Pain is unavoidable, suffering is optional,”
― Robert Andrew Powell, Running Away

“Running won't change your life, just the way you live it.”
― Robert Andrew Powell, Running Away

“As I prepare for my marathon qualifier, I continue to run on Wednesdays with the regular group. We continue to navigate a path near Shorter’s house. His name still comes up frequently, as it has since I arrived in town. We’ll be running along the foothills or perhaps finishing up a workout back atop Mapleton Hill. Someone will say they saw Shorter at the liquor store and he was as warm and friendly as can be. Someone else will say he saw Shorter somewhere else, perhaps at McGuckin Hardware, and Frank couldn’t have been more of a jerk. Before I met with him, I’d come to see him the way many in Boulder see him: mysterious and difficult, a seemingly selfish man on a mockable crusade to win a gold medal to match the gold medal he already has. I’d grown certain that he was a miserable soul locked away in his house, the lonely long-distance runner stewing in demons of his own design.”
― Robert Andrew Powell, Running Away

“I will keep going. Or, at least, I will die trying.”
― Robert Andrew Powell, Running Away

“Fuck it. Whatever. The hardest part of my day is over and it’s not even eight a.m.”
― Robert Andrew Powell, Running Away

“There is nobility in not quitting.”
― Robert Andrew Powell, Running Away

“It isn’t the first time I’ve reflexively rejected an upbeat spin on things, and Kevin has endured just about enough of my negativity.”
― Robert Andrew Powell, Running Away