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Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills
are gardeners
--William Shakespeare
1564-1616, English
dramatist and poet
Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality
and fraternity [sorority]…
--Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900
Aphorism 263
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored,
and in time, trusted.
--Martha Graham
1893-1991, US
choreographer and dancer
The mind's first step to self-awareness must
be through the body.
--George Sheehan
1918-1993, American
physician, author and
running enthusiast
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness
has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
--George Sheehan
1918-1993, American
physician, author and
running enthusiast
To improve, you must make your weaknesses
your strengths.
--Pat Summitt
1952-, University of
Tennessee women's
basketball coach
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and
spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures,
new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which
is what life is all about.
--Oprah Winfrey
1954-, US actress
and television talk
show host
Oprah Magazine,
May 2004
The body is an instrument, the mind its function,
the witness and reward of its operation.
--George Santayana
1863-1952, Spanish-born
US philosopher
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which
we who inhabit the body lack.
--Henry Miller
1891-1980
The body says what words cannot.
--Martha Graham
1893-1991
Give a man health and a course to steer, and
he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
--George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950
[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical
laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary,
full of secrets and marvels!
--Theodor Herzl
1860-1904
Hungarian-born Austrian
Zionist leader
A man's health can be judged by which he
takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
--Joan Welsh
Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically,
if we are willing to listen to them.
--Shakti Gawain
All we actually have is our body and its muscles
that allow us to be under our own power.
--Allegra Kent
1937-,
Once a Dancer…
As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that
has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where
there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
--Mohandas Gandhi
1869-1948
In every walk with nature, one receives far
more than he seeks.
--Anonymous
The only place success comes before work is
in the dictionary.
--Donald Kendall
A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.
--George Herbert
1593-1633
Jacula Prudentum
When a person trains once, nothing happens.
When a person forces himself to do a thing
a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed
in more ways than physical.
Is it raining? That doesn't matter.
Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either.
Then willpower will be no problem.
--Emil Zatopek
1922-2000
Olympic gold medalist
and great Czech
distance runner.
The freedom of cross-country is so primitive.
It's woman vs. nature.
--Lynn Jennings
1960-
Three-time world
cross-country champion.
There is great advantage in training under
unfavorable conditions.
--Emil Zatopek
1922-2000
Olympic gold medalist
and great Czech
distance runner.
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference
is that some of us are in training, and some of us are not.
--George Sheehan
1919-1993
American physician,
author, and running
enthusiast.
The secret of cross country is to do everything
we do on a track and take it into the bush.
--Mike Koskei
Former national
coach of Kenya.
It's at the borders of pain and suffering
that the men are separated from the boys.
--Emil Zatopek
1922-2000
Olympic gold medalist
and great Czech
distance runner.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me
to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
--Louis Pasteur
1822-1895
French biologist
& bacteriologist.
The footing was really atrocious. I loved
it. I really like cross-country; you're one with the mud.
--Lynn Jennings
1960-
Three-time world
cross-country champion.
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