Arthur C Clarke / . "Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale."

(daily ex., morning dog walk 2.3 mi, followed by stretching and yoga, pm slow jog tm 3.5 mi)

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” ~Herman Melville,

 

“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.”

― Grace Paley

(daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow tm jog 4 mi, 0.5 mi cooldown walk)

“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.” – Confucius

 Not sure I agree. Confucius may have gotten this one wrong. Life is not a spectator sport.

(daily ex., morning stretching, 3 walks = 4.9 mi, pm jog 1.6 mi)

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets” is a quote by Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible.

 (daily ex.,morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.1 mi, pm tm jog 3.1 mi, 1 mi cooldown walk)

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.” ― George Bernard Shaw

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.7 mi, pm slow jog 2.8 mi.  Trying to get back into the routine) 

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.” ― Mary Oliver

 (daily exercise, I'm back home, morning yoga, dog walk 1.1 mi, pm jog 2.1 mi)

“And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.” Maya Angelou

 (daily ex., brief morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm tm jog 4.7 mi)