"...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and... undemanding...maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other."

-- Christopher McDougall

#Running Quotes #Engineering Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.”
“On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”
“Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness .”
“Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.”
“Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.”
“When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.”
“Always look forward and try to push pass the negativity. I think everyone's beautiful and they deserve to be happy no matter what.”
“I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.”

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