"The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon."

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Source : Hal Higdon (2005). “Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide”, p.347, Rodale

Hal Higdon

#Running Quotes #Pain Quotes #Pride Quotes

“War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.”

Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.”
“You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy”
“I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.”
“I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.”
“Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.”
“The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.”
“The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world...”

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