Jesse Huang

“What was a 4-mile tempo run or an 8k race after the suffer-fest of 26.2?”
― Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

“In the depths of our winters, we are all wolfish. We want in the archaic sense of the word, as if we are lacking something and need to absorb it in order to be whole again. These wants are often astonishingly inaccurate: drugs and alcohol, which poison instead of reintegrate; relationships with people who do not make us feel safe or loved; objects that we do not need, cannot afford, which hang around our necks like albatrosses of debt long after the yearning for them has passed. Underneath this chaos and clutter lies a longing for more elemental things--love, beauty, comfort, a short spell of oblivion once in a while. Everyday life is often isolated, dreary, and lonely. A little craving is understandable. A little craving might actually be the rallying cry of survival”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“Some patients I could help with drugs, and some with the magic of attention and interest.”
― Oliver Sacks, Migraine

“What we discipline is not our "badness" or our "wrongness." What we discipline is any form of potential escape from reality. In other words, discipline allows us to be right here and connect with the richness of the moment. At the outer level, we could think of discipline as a structure, like a 30 minute meditation. Within this structure, we proceed with compassion. So on the inner level, the discipline is to return to gentleness, to honesty, to letting go.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times