“Sometimes you just do things!”
― Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
― Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“I'm convinced that a lot of people run ultramarathons for the same reason they take mood-altering drugs. I don't mean to minimize the gifts of friendship, achievement, and closeness to nature that I've received in my running carer. But 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.”
― Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
― Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. "Such a cool paradox." He said.”
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“So the next time you see a person with a compose face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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