jsmdpt’s most recent Quotables

Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, day and night, to make you everybody but yourself—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight—and never stop fighting.

Keep your tongue from evil, your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

...for the faults of married people continually spur up each of them, hour by hour, to do better and to meet and love upon a higher ground. And ever, between the failures, there will come glimpses of kind virtues to encourage and console.

The challenge in running is not to aim at doing the things no one else has done, but to keep doing things anyone could do—but most never will.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.

...those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

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 a lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The secret shared by women runners: running is not just physical exercise but a spiritual, mental, and emotional journey.

If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

Keeping my eye on today is about all I'm capable of. And today, I think I'll go for a run.

They say you can't run away from your troubles. I say that you can.

With a body made joyous through movement, the mind is able to relax. With mind/body balance, we can take the power of feeling good and generate compassion.

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.