{"quotes":[{"text":"Love finds you, not the other way around, and you can’t run from it.","author":"Dianna Hardy","tags":["fear","love","loving","running","running-from-love"],"id":142,"author_id":"Dianna+Hardy"},{"text":"As we run, we become.","author":"Amby Burfoot","tags":["growth","running"],"id":675,"author_id":"Amby+Burfoot"},{"text":"Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight.","author":"Vladimir Nabokov","tags":["childhood","girls","running","wild","youth"],"id":2344,"author_id":"Vladimir+Nabokov"},{"text":"I keep running away, As if from something, As if to something. I keep running away, As if from myself, As if to myself.","author":"Jenim Dibie","tags":["confused","jenim-dibie","run","running"],"id":3154,"author_id":"Jenim+Dibie"},{"text":"The Existentially Preoccupied Long Distance RunnerSometimes I like to run so hard and for so longwith each mile I can feel the pain of my own awareness,my own heightened consciousness of what ails me,the ills of the world,the limitations of our existence,the losses we must endure,the superficial interactions.Sometimes I like to run so hard and for so longthat I can feel all of these feelings seep out of the pours of my own skin,the sweat cleansing my very being,my awareness of beauty heightened,the experience of joy possible,each mile, each minute, ridding me of these feelings,washing away the illusions,showing me the truth.Sometimes I like to run so hard and for so long…until finally I feel free…until finally I AM free….","author":"Jacqueline Simon Gunn","tags":["endurance","endurance-and-attitude","existential-questions","existentialism","inspiration","inspirational-living","long-distance-running","marathon","running"],"id":6021,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Simon+Gunn"},{"text":"Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of sport. If pain weren't involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It's precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive--or at least a partial sense of it. Your quality of experience is based not on standards such as time or ranking, but on finally awakening to an awareness of the fluidity within action itself.” ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["running"],"id":7538,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.","author":"James Dyson","tags":["running"],"id":7816,"author_id":"James+Dyson"},{"text":"People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.","author":"Dean Karnazes","tags":["running","suffering"],"id":8350,"author_id":"Dean+Karnazes"},{"text":"Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is, have peace and take heart - remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.","author":"Kristin Armstrong","tags":["running"],"id":8974,"author_id":"Kristin+Armstrong"},{"text":"I wanna say something that I want you to remember for the rest of your life, OK? I want you to listen closely. I'm giving you a key to life right now, this is the key to life. The key to life, the key to life is running and reading. Oh right? Now listen very seriously, the key to life is running and reading. Right now, why running? When you're running and you are there and you're running there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says 'Oh, I'm tired', 'My lounge's about to pop', 'I'm so hurt', 'I'm so tired', 'There's no way I can possibly continue'. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life. Running. Oh right? That's the first key to life. Reading. The reason the reading is so important. There've been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you can have with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything, there's no problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and wrote about it in a book. So they keys to life are running and reading.","author":"Will Smith","tags":["inspirational","key-to-life","reading","running"],"id":11624,"author_id":"Will+Smith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":428,"pages":43,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}