Top 41 Deena Quotes
#1. Put football instead of cricket and she could have been me. She could have been Arwa, or Deena or any of the girls I grew up with here in Cairo in the Sixties. What difference do a hundred years - or a continent - make?
Ahdaf Soueif
#3. I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].
Deena Kastor
#4. Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha
Deena B. Chopra
#6. To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.
Deena Metzger
#7. When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth.
Deena Metzger
#8. Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.
Deena Metzger
#9. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.
Deena Kastor
#10. Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.
Deena Metzger
#12. A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.
Deena Kastor
#14. I'll tell you how to get up in the morning ... watch for the dawn.
Deena Metzger
#15. Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.
Deena Metzger
#16. The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.
Deena Metzger
#18. I love challenges and hurdles because they are opportunities.
Deena Kastor
#19. For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.
Deena Metzger
#20. To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.
Deena Metzger
#21. I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.
Deena Kastor
#22. Inhumanity is not only perpetrated by the vitriolic actions of those who are bad, but also perpetrated by the vitiating inaction of those who are good.
Deena Guzder
#23. We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.
Deena Kastor
#24. Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else.
Deena Metzger
#25. The gods come to us in the forms we recognize.
Deena Metzger
#26. Run in places you love with people you like. Enjoying your surroundings and training partners will strengthen your commitment to running and bring out the best in you.
Deena Kastor
#27. Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment - the most priceless of human treasures - are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen - who make "good" things happen - in the world around them. Joe Klock
Deena B. Chopra
#28. I felt my throat start to close up, and I didn't think I was getting enough oxygen. I was scared, and I thought about quitting. But you don't want to quit when you've trained so hard and long for one race.
Deena Kastor
#29. Just so you know, every part of my body is calling me a 'dickhead' right now and trying to revolt against me.
Deena Bright
#30. A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.
Deena Metzger
#31. You better fucking tell us where your little buddies are, or I am going to kick your uterus out, you fucking cunt.
Brian Michael Bendis
#32. Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don't validate. Indulge what you don't like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
Deena Metzger
#33. Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.
Deena Kastor
#34. This is our grace: To be a note
In the exact chord that animates creation.
Deena Metzger
#35. For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursue.
Deena Metzger
#36. Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
Deena Metzger
#37. There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved only for gods, heroes, and saints. Story is one bridge between the human realm and the divine.
Deena Metzger
#38. I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.
Deena Kastor
#39. Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.
Deena Kastor
#40. One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.
Deena Kastor
#41. As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.
Deena Kastor
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