Mark Einselen

“The champions have better bikes, more expensive shoes, many more pairs of cycling shorts than we do, but they have the same roads.”
― Tim Krabbé, The Rider

“Working men and women, in the din of shops or the clamor of tenement homes, have scant time to pray, but they know and claim their share in the prayers of those who are set apart to pray seven times a day. If all cannot do it, surely it is well that some can.”
― Sister Frances Anna C.S.M., A Garden Enclosed: Practical Studies in Religious Life

“But if you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going. That was the thought which sailed us through the hurricane and tugged us up and down those mountains... and when we got to the whaling station, it was the thought of those comrades which made us so mad with joy that the reaction beats all effort to describe it. We didn't so much feel that we were safe as that they were saved.”
― Jennifer Armstrong, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance

“If I get too close to somebody, I may hurt them. That is unacceptable to me. The safest option, then, is to be completely alone. Also, my biggest fear is being completely alone.”
― Jason Adam Katzenstein, Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures