“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.” ― Rollo May

 (daily ex. morning dog walk 0.5 miles, thundering and my dog was scared.   pm tm 5.5miles)

Luigi Pirandello Quotes. I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.6 miles, pm streak saver jog 1.1 miles)

The old that is strong does not wither

 

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

                J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.6 miles, pm tm jog 5.4 miles)

"If someone can convince you to believe in absurdities, they can convince you to commit atrocities." -- Professor Scott Galloway

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.7 miles on a hot day, pm tm jog 5 miles)

“And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.” Vincent van Gogh - The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.1 miles, pm tm jog 4.6 miles)

“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.” - Jimmy Buffett

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 2.5 miles, pm slow jog 3.2 miles)

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” – Aesop

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.1 miles, pm tm 4.7 miles)

Confucius / . "Great man is hard on himself; Small man is hard on others."

 Last night was stormy, my dog has become fearful of thunder, lightening, and fireworks, so we got very little sleep.  Daily ex, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm streak saver jog 1.1 miles)

 He saw a rock by the lake.

"A perfect rock!" he said. "Nice," she said. He threw it. Eons later, that was still the rock's favorite day.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.2 miles, pm tm jog 4.6 miles)

/ Marcus Aurelius / . "It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet."

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm tm jog 4.7 miles)

But the thing is, even if I could go back, I wouldn't belong there anymore.----Unknown

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.2 miles.....I let my dog wade in a creek but she opted to roll in the mud, so that meant I had to give her a bath, more exercise.  pm tm jog 5 miles. It was a hot day, the house is hot, the basement where my treadmill lives is cool)

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” — Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

 Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.1 miles, pm tm jog 4.6 miles.  My dog is getting older, she can't walk too far or too fast anymore)

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” – Henry David Thoreau

 (daily ex. update, morning Fleet Feet group walk plus dog walk 3.8 miles, pm tm jog 4.2 miles)

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.” ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 miles, pm tm jog 3.7 miles)

Childhood is a short season.---Helen Hayes

 (daily ex. update, 2 dog walks = 4.5 miles, pm tm jog 4.6 miles)

Nicolaus Copernicus / . "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

 (daily ex., 2 dog walks= 3.8 miles, pm tm jog 4.6 miles. my dog is getting older so we need to take shorter, slow, more frequent walks now)

“Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.” — Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature

 (daily ex. yesterday, morning walk 2.2 miles, pm jog 1 mile.    today morning walk 1.5 miles, pm tm jog 4.5 miles)

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” – Marcus Aurelius

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm tm jog 4.5 miles)

Heraclitus of Ephesus / . "If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives."

 (daily ex., morning walk with walk group plus dog walk 4 miles, pm tm jog 3.3 miles)

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” ― Albert Einstein

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.1 very slow miles, pm tm jog 4.1 miles)

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.” ― Émile Zola

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, afternoon jog 1.5 miles)

“The illusion is that the finish line is the destination. That act itself is the destination.”

 Happy Global Running Day!

(daily ex. morning dog walk only 2 miles, my old pup just didn't want to walk today.  pm tm jog 5.1 miles)

“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!” ― Paulo Coelho

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 3.1 miles, pm tm jog 4 miles)

/ Mark Twain / . "The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 3.1 miles, pm tm jog 4.5 miles)

Lord of the Rings

 Frodo: "I can't do this, Sam."

Sam: "I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mister Frodo. The ones that really mattered.

Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened.

But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mister Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. Because they were holding on to something."

Frodo: "What are we holding on to, Sam?"

Sam: "That there's some good in this world, Mister Frodo. And it's worth fighting for."

(daily ex., pm jog tm 3.5 miles, 2 mi. cool down walk tm)

 Kurt Vonnegut:

"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”

(daily ex. update,morning Fleet Feet walk and dog walk 4 miles,  pm tm jog 3.5 miles)

“Being against evil doesn’t make you good.” — Ernest Hemingway

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 2 miles, afternoon tm jog 5.5 miles)

“Education isn't something you can finish.” ― Isaac Asimov

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.1 mi, afternoon tm run 4.6 mi followed by 1 mi treadmill cooldown walk)