"But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus."

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Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Scott Jurek

#Worry Quotes #Focus Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.”
“When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or novel, he shows me something different within the framework he's built - like noticing that there's a chair in the corner I didn't see in another story.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?”

Source : "In the Vaccine-Autism Debate, What Can Parents Believe?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.
“The fact that gay marriage is legal but women don't have equal rights is so redonkulous that I think it just doesn't stand the light of day.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard”
“My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.”
“All rappers are princesses like me.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Earl Sweatshirt, on Being a Teenage Rap Prodigy Back From Exile" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. August 19, 2013.

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