George Sheehan Quotes

#1. What the jogger's face shows is not boredom but contemplation, which Thomas Aquinas described as man's highest activity save one - contemplation plus putting the fruits of that contemplation into action.

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#2. Courage is the bridge between our minds and our bodies.

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#3. And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.

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#4. Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

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#5. Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending.

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#6. For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

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#7. Aging is a myth, he argued, and he showed it by posting his personal best at 3:01 in his 61st year.

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#8. Boredom, like beauty, is in the mind of the beholder. 'There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject,' said Chesterton. 'The only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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#9. The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

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#10. At 45, 2 years after the birth of his last child, he started running again.

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#11. We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely ... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

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#12. Only a sense of humor can help each of us face those great unanswerable questions: Why was I born? Why am I here? Why must I die? What must I do to make my life a triumph? -

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#13. From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the cheering and the shouting die.

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#14. Running is just such a monestary
a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

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#15. If you don't have a challenge, find one,

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#16. The runner who is in peak condition is only a razor's edge from catastrophe.

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#17. Man is meant to be a success. Each of us, he said, is unique and endowed with potentials unlike those of others. Success comes in finding your authentic self, the person you truly are, and becoming that person, tapping all of that untapped potential.

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#18. It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not
to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is
against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

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#19. The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.

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#20. So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.

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#21. William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. The real question posed to us is the effort we are willing to make,

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#22. The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

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#23. The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide our lives. And myth is meaning divined rather than defined, implicit rather than explicit.

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