"I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go."

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Source : Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.148, Atlantic Books

Dean Karnazes

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“I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.”
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”

Source : Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.40
“Since, though I do not repent my amorous exploits, I am far from wanting my example to contribute to the corruption of the fair sex, which deserves our homage for so many reasons, I hope that my observations will foster prudence in fathers and mothers and thus at least deserve their esteem.”
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.”
“Age is not important in relationship”
“There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.”
“I believe there is a champion in all of us.”

Source : Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, Mickey Rourke (2012). “Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter”, p.10, Chicago Review Press
“There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.”

Source : Pierre Bayle (1735). “The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle”, p.779

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