"I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner circuitries of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be."

-- Jill Bolte Taylor

#Running Quotes #Believe Quotes #Peaceful Quotes

“Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.”

Source : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar
“In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions.”
“Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.”
“If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?”
“Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment about a much older Russian political dissident.That's the human part of being human: feeling those moments.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.”
“Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.”

Source : Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.91, Random House
“I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.”

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