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running art way
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart Charles Bukowski
running pain motivation
If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain. Christopher McDougall
running prayer sacrifice
-The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own. Christopher McDougall
running things-in-life long
When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's jus time and the movement and the motion.That's what love--just being a barbarian, running through the woods. Christopher McDougall
running animal race
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest. Christopher McDougall
running mean heart
Running is the heart of what it means to be human. Christopher McDougall
running struggle fall
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by," Kerouac wrote. "Trails are like that: you're floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you're struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak... just like life. Christopher McDougall
running good-times scared
We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. Christopher McDougall
running winning advice
I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard. Christopher McDougall
nature voice saddening
The voice of nature is always encouraging. Henry David Thoreau
nature book reading
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. R. Buckminster Fuller
nature men circles
There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature opportunity men
As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich is nature in the innermost diversity of her treasures of beauty, order and intelligence. Louis Agassiz
nature art men
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life. Louis Agassiz
nature prayer breathing
I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides His secrets from me only to allure me graciously on to the unfolding of them. Louis Agassiz
nature phrases pursuit
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase? Logan Pearsall Smith
nature heart bird
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. Lois Lowry
nature flower school
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. Mao Zedong
stars heart order
Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts. Boethius
stars night clouds
The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up. Andre Breton
stars hands world
In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world. Angela Bassett
stars careers risk
Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting. Ang Lee
stars science men
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it. Anatole France
stars sky republic
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free. Anatole France
stars hair imagination
I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. Anais Nin
stars i-hate-you hair
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. Anais Nin
stars gun perfect
THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem. Anne Carson