Lauren Fleshman Quotes

#1. A short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

Margaret Deland

#2. The Pre highlighted things I needed to tweak. I'm glad I ran there and found the things I needed to tweak and didn't find those things out here.

Lauren Fleshman

#3. Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#4. Why are you sad?

Jean Rhys

#5. The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

Anita Roddick

#6. Make your race a playground, not a proving ground.

Lauren Fleshman

#7. I once read that the secret to happiness is having something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love.

Richard Paul Evans

#8. Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite. Your desire for involvement with the world of means when Allah has withdrawn you from it is a fall from high aspiration.

Ahmad Ibn ?Ajiba

#9. Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover?

Lauren Fleshman

#10. We can't expect to effectively move forward with half the population carrying sandbags.

Lauren Fleshman

#11. By lifting each other up we lift ourselves up

Lauren Fleshman

#12. Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

Seth Godin

#13. I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

Yoenis Cespedes

#14. Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.

Poppy Z. Brite

#15. Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

Lauren Fleshman

#16. I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.

Glen Duncan

#17. Running is not who I am; it's something I do; it's something I love.

Lauren Fleshman

#18. Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity. It was a look, almost, of pale surprise; the dark eyes were so fixed to the world that no moved escaped them.

Ray Bradbury

#19. The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more than anything is a suitable prosthetic and an attitude adjustment.

Lauren Fleshman

#20. I may not be the lithest, the most talented, or have the fastest time in the field, but I have passion and courage, and sometimes that is enough to do something extraordinary.

Lauren Fleshman

#21. When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.

Lauren Fleshman

#22. I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.

Gilbert Hernandez

#23. I decided to make the life I want, and put energy into what moves me, and not rely on anyone for approval of my choices.

Lauren Fleshman

#24. When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

Lauren Fleshman

#25. Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.

Lauren Fleshman

#26. Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.

Lauren Fleshman