"Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by," Kerouac wrote. "Trails are like that: you're floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you're struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak... just like life."

-- Christopher McDougall

#Running Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Fall Quotes

“It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.”
“Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza”
“Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.”

Source : Song: Money And Corruption / I Am Your Man
“With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.”
“I am not convinced that either the position, rewards or achievements have been worth the cost. My personal and married life and child raising have surely suffered from the professional attainments I have achieved.”
“When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.”
“Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't well received by my agent at the time, and it had been drilled into me that "memoir outsells fiction two to one" (not sure if that's true anymore, or if it ever was), so I felt like the only smart thing to do, professionally, was to keep mining my life for painful moments to recapitulate.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I am taking my production style more into the world of dub. I mean true dub production techniques but in house music.”

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