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Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#cycling #training #love

A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#greatness #passion #love

Y al final dejó el horror de esta vida para entrar en el horror de la muerte. ↗

— Fernando Vallejo

#life #pessimism #death

Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy--start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool--cucumbers is the word--easy, easy--only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys--that's all. Start her! ↗

— Herman Melville

#moby-dick #death

Men can shift gears from romantic to practical - and so can the bitch. ↗

— Sherry Argov

#inspirational

Believe nothing No matter where you read it Or who has said it Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#inspirational

Ars longa, vita brevis ↗

— Hippocrates

#inspirational

Love is the only solution ↗

— Anand Krishna

#inspirational

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught ↗

— Winston Churchill

#inspirational

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#christ #christian #god #inspirational #jesus