Top 100 Gina Greenlee Quotes
#1. When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.
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#2. Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
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#3. When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead,
and have fun with what happens.
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#5. It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.
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#6. Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret.
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#7. Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.
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#8. I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn't know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?
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#9. A craving for company can yield the surprising discovery that the companionship we yearn for is with ourselves.
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#10. You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.
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#11. Each of us knows when it's time to wake, eat and rest. We don't need to read a clock for these activities; we need to listen.
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#12. What's at the core of your desire to run a marathon? Couple this journey with value beyond miles. The meaning you ascribe to your effort crystalizes your motivation and fuels your commitment to stay the course and go the distance.
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#13. Forget black and white and try on gray. In hair color, wardrobe or life choices, it may feel more enlivening than you imagine.
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#14. As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for "instructions.
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#15. If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.
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#16. Trust what feels true even if that truth requires you to ignore what you know.
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#17. As your training integrates Mind, Body and Spirit, enjoy the process. Your journey to the marathon finish will last a few hours. Your journey to the start will influence a lifetime.
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#18. Large bodies of goal achievement research encourage written goals for good reason. When we write down our goals, we transform what we imagine into reality.
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#19. We can't script every detail of our lives. But we can solve the riddle
of fulfillment when we plan ahead while simultaneously embracing
the surprises of each moment.
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#20. Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly
so every stretch won't feel like your first.
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#21. In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen.
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#23. You don't have to spend a lot of money to feel like a million. A good night's sleep, a quiet walk by the river or a hug from a favorite person will do the trick.
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#24. Let your body move. It will give voice to a language that can heal.
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#25. This is your first marathon. Possibly, you'll want it to be your last. Focus on future races draws energy from the one in front of you. Like the mileage that comprises them, train for marathons one at a time.
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#26. Give full attention to life's moments
and the images you capture will be everlasting.
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#27. In these pages, traveling "solo" does not necessarily mean "alone." The absence of other people often suggests regretful isolation. "Solo" by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience.
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#28. It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities.
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#30. Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads
formed years and miles apart.
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#31. Ten years ago I wondered, "How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?" I've answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.
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#32. An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.
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#33. The goal of your first marathon is to finish. You have no time goal. You're not endeavoring to win or place in your age category. Being a speed demon serves no purpose other than to court injury. Your only competition is you.
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#34. If you built the box, you can also break it down.
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#35. One of the most important ways for you to train, stay healthy and injury free is to listen closely to what your body tells you.
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#36. If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.
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#37. Life provides ample opportunity to test our mettle. When circumstances call for it, let's give ourselves a break and ask for help.
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#38. The goal of this book is do for you what Greg did for me: reframe 26.2 miles as accessible and inspire your first marathon journey, one mile at a time.
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#41. Feeling lonely? Wish you had a special someone to help fill the void? Reconsider your definition of romance, reconnect to your passions and be swept away.
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#42. Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfying
relationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for a
marathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.
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#43. No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.
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#44. If you can run six, you can run 10," he said, noshing on an energy bar. "Run 10 and you can run 13. That's how it works. You have three to four more miles in you than you think.
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#45. The help we give to others creates the ripple of good feeling we give to ourselves.
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#46. Like flowers blooming through cement,
we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.
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#47. Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.
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#48. Whether you need to make a call or answer one,don't put your passions on hold.
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#49. The study book for life's tests is the whole of our experience. Though we may
feel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.
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#50. Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.
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#51. Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let's experiment with letting go.
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#52. When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how,
this is not a red herring; it's a map.
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#53. Indulgence comes in all varieties: a mouthful of gourmet chocolate, a hot stone massage, a week in Paris or 20 uninterrupted minutes to get
lost in a book.
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#54. People across the earth are aching to serve as your ambassadors in one form or another. Let them.
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#55. Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.
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#56. Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
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#57. The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.
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#59. Whether by plane, bus or carpet,
own the magic in your ride.
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#60. Do your fears warn of external dangers? Or, are they the kind that keep you from becoming more of your true self?
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#61. Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do.
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#62. If you don't ask, you don't get. But if you ask and don't get, ask again.
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#63. Rest and repose are as much a part of life's journeys as seeing all we came to see.
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#64. If you can't remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you're overdue.
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#65. Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.
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#66. Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.
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#68. When we establish human connections within the context of shared
experience we create community wherever we go.
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#69. Boredom has a bad rap. Its true character reveals you are deep inside your comfort zone. Boredom is a docent beckoning toward the edges of a labyrinth.
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#70. Once flooded with light, our boogeymen diminish, no longer ogres in our imagination. We welcome internal dialogue for its treasures.
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#71. Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.
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#72. If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself,
"How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?
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#73. Much of what we acquire in life isn't worth dragging to the next leg of our
journey. Travel light. You will be better equipped to travel far.
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#74. Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.
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#75. If we never challenge our shortcomings, we ensure that they remain our Achilles' heel.
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#76. Then I'd go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travel's inspiration. What was different?
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#77. Honoring your own boundaries is the clearest message to others to honor them, too.
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#78. Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.
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#79. Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from your
desk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin.
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#81. Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won't miss the one with your name on it.
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#82. When actors encounter a mishap during a stage performance,
they transform it for good purpose by employing a technique called,
"use the difficulty." How can you "use the difficulty" in your life?
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#83. Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.
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#84. Body follows mind. If the mind compares itself to others this could lead to overtraining. Tune out what other runners do and how fast they run. Tune in, instead, to how your body wants to increase speed and distance.
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#85. Imagine how fluid life would be if we each had an advisor who, with our best interest at heart, provided clear, objective and decisive guidance. When we trust our instincts, we do.
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#87. Travel in the direction of what you resist. On the way, you will meet a
version of yourself who has been seeking you.
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#88. Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.
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#89. No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me.
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#90. What do you believe about who you are? About your capabilities? When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to test them?
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#91. What we seek when we wander usually leads us back home.
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#92. Allow seven months to responsibly train for your first marathon. This will minimize stress to your mind and body and give your existential nature time to incorporate a new way of being.
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#93. No need to queue up; step forward and count yourself in.
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#94. Develop the habit of initiating change. You'll be better prepared for whatever comes your way.
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#95. Often, the key to getting what we need is simply to let it in.
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#96. We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference between
the two can make all the difference in the end.
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#97. All discomfort is not equal. Learning to listen will help you distinguish among effort, fatigue and pain. To what degree, under what conditions and over what period of time your body experiences these sensations will determine how you respond.
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#98. During those days of whirling about the globe, I had an epiphany: travel was the only area of my life where I had no expectations. I anticipated nothing while fully engaging each moment. What bred adventure, surprise and deep experience was not knowing, surrendering to now and letting go of control.
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#100. When life events mimic shattered glass,
carefully locate the pieces then gently pick them up.
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