"Sport that consumed me for over two decades . . . is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive."

-- Clara Hughes

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“Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.”
“Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.”
“All life long, the same questions, the same answers.”
“I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.”
“The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing.”
“Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.”
“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”
“You're the Picasso of pain.”

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