"We runners talk about having fun but I don't think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care, we exercise caution, we watch our diets and monitor our pace. We are ascetics who talk, unconvincingly, of the bracing enjoyment of self-abuse." -Peter Sagal
Recovering from Rock Bridge Revenge today....
"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers." -Ed Sullivan
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"As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation." -William Faulkner, October 1924, quitting his job as a University of Mississippi postmaster.
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"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer." -Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture.
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"I am not religious so that I have no apprehension of a hereafter, either a hope of reward or a fear of punishment. It is not a matter of belief. It is what I feel to be true from my experience, observation and simple tissue feeling." -John Steinbeck, in a letter to his new physician, 1964.
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"These swings between boldness and mistrust, intimacy and isolation led him to stay at home, keep himself concealed, becoming a sort of hermit, whose passion for the world directed every brushstroke, changed each creation into an expression of tenderness, which he dismissed writing: 'a vague sense of apprehension persists.'" -Cezanne's Seclusion by Stephen Dobyns.
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"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for the confusion." -Molly Ivins
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"What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields." -Philip Larken
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"My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?" -composer & pianist Clara Schumann
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"And that's how we measure out our real respect for people -- by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate -- and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you." -poet Ted Hughes in a letter to his son.
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"If you don't know who you are, you don't know where you're going. If you don't know where you're going, you're lost." -good quote from a Miss Navajo hopeful on NPR
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"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting another person to die." -Buddha
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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that make what we read ours." -John Locke
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"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." -Marilyn Monroe
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it." -George Bernard Shaw
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