Ultrarunners Hoka Quotes & Sayings

Only one possibility remains: the movement by which the will turns from enjoying the Creator to enjoying his creatures belongs to the will itself. — Augustine Of Hippo

I am sad for the dead and I am sad for the living
but not for my 5 cats — Charles Bukowski

Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall! — John Mellencamp

Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on."
"Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question.
"Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right ... I dunno. Why do you play?"
"Because," I whispered, "it's who I am."
Sounds like a good reason to me. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

The passageway smelled of smoke: burning wood, a torch, acrid. His head ached. Blood was wet and sticky upon his arm and on his fingers, and the orange glow of torchlight played from behind his back and over the corridor walls, leaping like a bonfire. There was a strange familiarity to it: the narrow walls in around him. And when he came to a wooden door set in the wall, he put his hand upon it and pushed it open.
There was a room, and a pallet inside it; a small torch burned low in a socket upon the wall. A man lay upon the cot, his face bruised and battered, his hands curled against his chest bloody: and Laurence knew him; knew him and knew himself. He remembered another door opening, in Bristol, three years before, and a voice asking him to come outside his prison, in a Britain under siege.
"Tenzing," Laurence said, and, as Tharkay opened feverish eyes, went to help him stand. — Naomi Novik

What is knowledge without an impact to society? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. — Theophile Gautier

Acting is so much fun. It is a different ball game and I want to concentrate on that at the moment. I'm really passionate about what I do. I love entertainment and telling stories to people and I am very lucky that I am doing what I want to do. — Britney Spears

The best measure of a politician's electoral success was becoming not how successfully he could broker people's desires, but how well he could tap their fears. — Rick Perlstein

No culture is without access to divine mysteries. — Andrea Cremer