"I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong. I ran as a child, and I intend to run into my old age."

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Source : Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books

Grete Waitz

#Inspirational Quotes #Running Quotes #Children Quotes

“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive”
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
“What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.”
“A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.”

Source : "'A Death In Summer' Starts With A Mysterious Suicide". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 2, 2011.
“Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.”
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

Source : Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing
“There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.”

Source : Alice Cary (1876). “The Last Poems: Of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.72
“there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug.”

Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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