Josh S

“God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to let it go. You get know it so well, you're not afraid of it anymore[...]You can't hate the Beast and expect to beat it; the only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“The reason I don’t worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I’ll take those odds every f*cking day.”
― Jon Stewart