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Are we running away from home?” I asked, giving voice to the question that had been on my mind for two days, ever since the lady at the Wok On restaurant asked where we were from and my mother lied. My mother had laughed. I couldn’t see her face, but her laugh I could always conjure—rich, ringing, like bells calling you to a wedding. “No, silly goose. You can’t run away from home. It’s not home if you want to run away from it.” She paused to brush a strand of hair from my face. “You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward. ↗


— Michele Jaffe


#running-away #home

I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go. ↗


— Dean Karnazes


#inspirational

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are. ↗


— Christopher McDougall


#running #inspirational

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running. ↗


— Sherman Austin


#back #been #come #computers #dismantle

People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — and for me, for writing as whole. I believe many runners would agree ↗


— Haruki Murakami


#life

I don't run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days. ↗


— Ronald Rook


#life

Sometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man. ↗


— Alan Heathcock


#escape #running-away #unhappiness #movies

But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself. ↗


— Meb Keflezighi


#marathon #running #dreams

I did try to leave, and she came running after me. ↗


— David Gest


#came #did #i #leave #me

I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them. ↗


— Zahi Hawass


#after #am #cent #damn #doing






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