Jim Fixx Quotes

#1. Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens.

Bill Hicks

#2. You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.

Sonya Hartnett

#3. If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.

Dorothy Stratten

#4. Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Jim Fixx

#5. I would that there was nothing in the world
But my beloved that night and day had perished,
And all that is and all that is to be,
All that is not the meeting of our lips.

William Butler Yeats

#6. [Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss.

Jim Fixx

#7. What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

Carol Ann Duffy

#8. Information was control.

Joan Didion

#9. It is not something I must do but something I want to do ...

Jim Fixx

#10. Play not only keeps us young but also maintains our perspective about the relative seriousness of things. Running is play, for even if we try hard to do well at it, it is a relief from everyday cares.

Jim Fixx

#11. When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.

Jim Fixx

#12. Is beer good for runners? Sure ... if it's the other guy drinking it.

Jim Fixx

#13. annunciations are frequent. incarnations are rare.

Saint Basil

#14. Set aside a time solely for running. Running is more fun if you don't have to rush through it.

Jim Fixx

#15. The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.

Jim Fixx

#16. A slight but perceptible wave seemed to roll beneath the floor; then it sank; then another came, more perceptible. Lights slid right across the uncurtained window. The ship gave a loud melancholy moan.

Virginia Woolf

#17. Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.

Jim Fixx