"All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, canâ€™t be turned off."

-- Shalane Flanagan

#Fire Quotes #Tough Times Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.”
“When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.”
“As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.”
“In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.”
“All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.”
“So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.”

Source : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“Maybe honeymoons are God's anesthesia. Like the "laughing gas" used by dentists, perhaps honeymoons are designed to protect us from a bit of the pain and fear involved in doing something that, while scary and uncomfortable, is for our own good in the long run.”

Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Courage to be a Stepmom: Finding Your Place Without Losing Yourself”, p.90, Council Oak Books
“Being able to depend on someone doesn't mean you're dependent on them.”

Source : Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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