“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”
― Christopher McDougall
“The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.”
― John Bingham
“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”
― Dean Karnazes
“Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.”
― Joyce Carol Oates
“Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.”
― Dean Karnazes
“Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy.”
― Mark Will-Weber
“Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.”
― Christopher McDougall
“I don't run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.”
― Ronald Rook
“Movement is the essence of life.”
― Bernd Heinrich
“Run and become.
Become and run.
Run to succeed in the outer world.
Become to proceed in the inner world.”
― Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007)
“Running should be saved for the times when you're being chased.”
― Simone Elkeles
“Jogging is very beneficial. It’s good for your legs and your feet. It’s also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.”
― Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000)
“Running is analogue. It is hunter-gatherer. It is Palaeo. It is linear. It is long-form thought. It is an uninterrupted conversation with yourself. It is a journey back through modernity to your body. It is a way out of technology. It is a way to be free.”
― Vybarr Cregan-Reid
“Running, like literature, like arts, helps you to remember and re-experience some of the impossible strangeness of what it means to be who and what we are, of what it means to be human.”
― Vybarr Cregan-Reid