"People are willing to take these extraordinary chances to become writers, musicians, or painters, and because of them, we have a culture. If this ever stops, our culture will die, because most of our culture, in fact, has been created by people that got paid nothing for it—people like Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Van Gogh or Mozart."
Kurt Vonnegut
"It’s not so much that I began to run, but that I continued."
Hal Higdon, American runner and writer (via fit-runner)
"Life is in the struggle, and I never feel more alive than when I’m struggling."
Dean Karnazes
"Running is just you, the work you put in, and the clock. You can’t cheat yourself. If you don’t put in the miles, you can’t go to the starting line thinking you’re going to pull a miracle out of nowhere. You get out exactly as much as you put in."
Desiree Davila 
"But a funny thing happens. Songs shift their meanings when you sing them, they shift their meanings in time, they shift their meanings with who you sing them with. And when you sing the song with someone you love, it turns into something else."
Bruce Springsteen

“You need to look back, not just at the people who are running behind you but especially at those who don’t run and never will. Those who run but don’t race. Those who started training for a race but didn’t carry through. Those who got to the starting line but didn’t get to the finish line. Those who once raced better than you but no longer run at all. You’re still here. Take pride in wherever you finish. Look at all the people you’ve outlasted.

-Joe Henderson

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde
"Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don’t have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up."
Amby Burfoot, The Runner’s Guide to the Meaning of Life
"If they’re done right, records should do seemingly opposing things. On one hand, they transport you… they drop you somewhere else. But at the same time, they root you deeper in yourself."
Matt Nathanson
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