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“The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.”
― Jim Rohn

“Random thinking is the enemy of the ultramarathoner. Thinking is best used for the primitive essentials: when I ate last, the distance to the next aid station, the location of the competition, my pace. Other than those considerations, the key is to become immersed in the present moment where nothing else matters.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“But you can be transformed. Not overnight, but over time. Life is not a race.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“Eating raw was like getting a Ph.D. in a plant-based diet—hard work, but worth it.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“The empty mind is a dominant mind. It can draw other minds into its rhythm, the way a vacuum sucks up dirt or the way the person on the bottom of a seesaw controls the person on the top. When I hear a runner say he “runs his own race,” what I hear is bushido.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“One cliché attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely. If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don't wish for it to end, or for it to never end.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be." - William James”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

“Sometimes you just do things!”
― Scott Jurek, Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“The longer and farther I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind--a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“When you run on the earth and with the earth, you can run forever. —RARAMURI PROVERB”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“They’re gonna chick you, Jurker! Do you want to get chicked?” (Dusty had coined the term when he was in high school. It’s now part of the ultra-running lexicon).”
― Scott Jurek, Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

“Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone...”
― Jeffery Deaver, Carte Blanche

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is better to wake up alone, knowing you are alone, than to wake up with someone, still being lonely.”
― Liv Ullmann

“It is a common misconception — pervasive and tenacious, but a misconception nonetheless — that arses are made for sitting on. It seems, instead, they are made for running.”
― Mark Rowlands, Running with the Pack