"He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be."

-- Christopher McDougall

#Running Quotes #Essence Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. Weâ€™d set up a partition, separate whatâ€™s important to us from what was trash, put only the things we loved on our side, and got rid of the rest.”
“The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That’s not one-nation conservatism; it’s two nations conservatism.”

Source : "Can David Cameron make Tories the new party of social justice?" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2015.
“You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.”
“I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.”
“The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.”
“A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”
“Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.”
“I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.”

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