what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God’s presence resides?
“As I get older I see that running has changed for me. What used to be about burning calories is now more about burning up what is false. Lies I used to tell myself about who I was and what I could do, friendships that cannot withstand hills or miles, the approval I no longer need to seek, and solidarity that cannot bear silence. I run to burn up what I don't need and ignite what I do.”
― Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run
― Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run
“I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can’t and I can.”
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“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
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“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
― Knowledge and Decisions
― Knowledge and Decisions
“There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.”
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