"We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward."

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Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.221, A&C Black

Scott Jurek

#Regret Quotes #Decision Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.”
“The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.”

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.226, David R. Godine Publisher
“Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.”
“Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?”
“Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.”
“I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility.”
“Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.”
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”

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