Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.
Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.
I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.
The only magic in our lives as runners is the magic of consistency. Not every run will make you feel great.
Marathons are about tenacity as much as talent.
Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.
Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.
It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry - school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general - but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place.