"The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else."

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Source : John Bingham (2002). “No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running”, p.159, Rodale

John Bingham

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“In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.”

Source : Clark Ashton Smith, “The Unremembered”
“A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.”
“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”
“I'm a sensitive guy, and I'm already one of my harshest critics, so if other people are hard on me, it just amplifies how hard I already am on myself.”
“I love Hugh Jackman. Love Hugh Jackman. He's the coolest. He's one of the coolest actors I've ever worked with, and I'll do anything with him.”
“The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.”
“Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.”
“I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Moonstone (Mystery Thriller Classic): Detective story from the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe and more”, p.203, e-artnow

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