A Runner’s Thoughts: “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” (St. Francis Of Assisi)
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A Runner's Thoughts: “You need not seek him here or there, for he is no further than the door of your heart: there he stands patiently awaiting whoever is ready to open up and let him in.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner's Thoughts: “God give light to those who call to you. May our lips praise you today; our lives proclaim your goodness today; our works give you honor today, and our voices celebrate you today and always.” (Adapted from a Prayer from the Divine Office - Sunday Morning Week I)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Of course, we all go through our own experiences. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.” (Sakyong Mipham, Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind)
A Runner's Thoughts: “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” (Mark Twain)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer.” (Pope Francis)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Life is for participating, not for spectating.” (Kathrine Switzer) The same is true about faith, thus if we say we believe, we have faith then we need to be participating not spectating. So, get out there and be a person of faith today!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” (Abraham Lincoln)
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