"You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally."

-- Frank Shorter

#Running Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.”
“The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.”

Source : Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
“It doesn't really matter to me whether the 7-year-olds are big fans of my work. I'm happy just to be working at all. I do think it will be nice to have a movie that my son can watch.”
“Perhaps you have to have a little bit of hope to believe that beauty can be found, to believe that life does come back, that something can surprise you. And maybe hope and wonder are somehow related. Maybe wonder feeds hope and hope feeds wonder. You see something beautiful and it reminds you that it's possible to see something beautiful.”

Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.54, Penguin
“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”

Source : Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.14, Penguin
“You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.”
“To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.”

Source : "Selected speeches and writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-March 1977". Book by Indira Gandhi, 1984.
“So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!”

Source : "Cee Lo Green: 'I've been such an oddball my whole life'". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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