"God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."

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Source : "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.

Eric Liddell

#Motivational Quotes #Sports Quotes #Running Quotes

“Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.”
“Iâ€˜ve said it once and I will say it again, why canâ€˜t everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go â€” why canâ€˜t other nations?”
“Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear younger or better according to the designated pattern. I wanted to disrupt the standarts of beauty.”
“I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.”
“Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.”
“There's the wind And the rain And the mercy of the fallen Who say, "Hey, it's not my place To know what's right" There's the weak And the strong And the many stars that guide us We have some of them inside us”
“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.”

Source : Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.35, Penguin
“Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person whoâ€™s bound to have some characteristic of quality.”

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