Jaroslav Kubíček

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“By going to places where I do not belong, I experience the art of living - orientation through disorientation. All the deserts of the world lie within us, after all.”
― Reinhold Messner, My Life at the Limit