Haythem Ayari

“Perhaps the pain of running helps numb the pain of the past. In all those hours pushing yourself on the trail, perhaps the feelings of despair, loss, rejection, whatever they are, start to soften, and things get put into perspective" (The Rise of Ultra Runners, 75)”
― Adharanand Finn, The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance

“Far more potently than any miracle medicine, relatively uncelebrated shifts in civic arrangements--better nutrition, housing, and sanitation, improved sewage systems and ventilation--had driven TB mortality down in Europe and America. Polio and smallpox had also dwindles as a result of vaccinations. Cains wrote, "The death rates from malaria, cholera, typhus, tuberculosis, scurvy, pellagra, and other scourges of the past have dwindled in the US because humankind has learned how to prevent these diseases.... To put most of the effort into treatment is to deny all precedent.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“Experience, not information, is the key to emotional development.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“author Dean Karnazes had once said, that people mistake comfort for happiness. ‘Happiness needs to be earned,”
― Adharanand Finn, The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance