"People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner."

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Source : "Ultramarathon Man". Book by Dean Karnazes, March 17, 2005.

Dean Karnazes

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“My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.”

Source : Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.
“My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.”
“No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.”

Source : "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.
“We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”
“Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.”
“Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 53), February 26, 1964.
“Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.”
“In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.”

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