"Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life."

-- John Landy

#Running Quotes #Inspirational Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.”
“If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?”
“Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment”
“A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldnâ€™t you say?”
“That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.”

Source : Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.67, Paulist Press
“I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.”
“Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is like your nation, a little out of hand. The lake is your cousin. The creek is your sister. The pond is her child. And, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, you're married to your sink.”
“I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today.”

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