"Overcoming the difficulties of an ultramarathon reminds me that I can overcome the difficulties of life"

-- Scott Jurek

#Overcoming Quotes #Difficulty Quotes

“Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.”

Source : John Flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2015). “THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP”, p.161, Lulu.com
“I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!”
“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.”

Source : Archie Fairly Carr (1967). “So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles”
“Your life is right now! It's not later! It's not in that time of retirement. It's not when the lover gets here. It's not when you've moved into the new house. It's not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now-until it gets better right now!”
“Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.”
“The control center of your life is your attitude.”
“I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They're all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy.”
“I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.”

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